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These supplementary schools acknowledge that “there are barriers, there are inequalities, there are all of these things, and it doesn’t make excuses. But it recognises them.” lacuna.org.uk/equality/bla...
September 2, 2026 at 11:36 AM
These supplementary schools acknowledge that “there are barriers, there are inequalities, there are all of these things, and it doesn’t make excuses. But it recognises them.” lacuna.org.uk/equality/bla...
Institutions such as PASS are addressing several anxieties which have been brewing across young people in the UK, many of which are now threatening to become full-blown crises.
September 2, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Institutions such as PASS are addressing several anxieties which have been brewing across young people in the UK, many of which are now threatening to become full-blown crises.
Many of the issues Walters-Nisbett saw Black children encountering when she started teaching 25 years ago are still present today: from children being stereotyped as troublemakers, to the outcomes of Black Caribbean children lagging those of their peers in secondary school.
September 2, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Many of the issues Walters-Nisbett saw Black children encountering when she started teaching 25 years ago are still present today: from children being stereotyped as troublemakers, to the outcomes of Black Caribbean children lagging those of their peers in secondary school.
PASS is part of a wider movement started in the 1960s, when people came to the UK from what were then British colonies in the Caribbean as part of the Windrush generation, encouraged and invited by the British government to help rebuild the UK economy after WWII.
September 2, 2026 at 11:36 AM
PASS is part of a wider movement started in the 1960s, when people came to the UK from what were then British colonies in the Caribbean as part of the Windrush generation, encouraged and invited by the British government to help rebuild the UK economy after WWII.
The Phoenix Agenda Supplementary School (PASS), for children between the ages of 7 and 16, was co-founded by Julie Walters-Nisbett, alongside teacher and researcher Dr Camille London-Miyo and former local councillor George Cole.
September 2, 2026 at 11:36 AM
The Phoenix Agenda Supplementary School (PASS), for children between the ages of 7 and 16, was co-founded by Julie Walters-Nisbett, alongside teacher and researcher Dr Camille London-Miyo and former local councillor George Cole.
In Las Palmas, independent journalist Renée Boskaljon, speaks with teenagers about their perilous sea journeys, their experience of reaching the Canary Islands and their hopes for the future
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Reaching the Canary Islands: The unaccompanied children on one of Europe's most dangerous migration routes
Spain’s Canary Islands have become one of Europe’s main arrival points for unaccompanied migrant children. One in five people dies on the Canarian migration route with ocean crossings that take severa...
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July 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
In Las Palmas, independent journalist Renée Boskaljon, speaks with teenagers about their perilous sea journeys, their experience of reaching the Canary Islands and their hopes for the future
lacuna.org.uk/migration/re...
lacuna.org.uk/migration/re...
For Mohamed, from Senegal, life in Europe has not been what he imagined. “I thought that when I came here I wouldn’t suffer anymore. But I suffer a lot... people speak over my head as though I can’t understand, saying that people like me came only to take.”
July 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
For Mohamed, from Senegal, life in Europe has not been what he imagined. “I thought that when I came here I wouldn’t suffer anymore. But I suffer a lot... people speak over my head as though I can’t understand, saying that people like me came only to take.”
The Canarian route has been in use since the 1990s, but EU deals that reduced Mediterranean crossings pushed migrants onto the far more dangerous Atlantic alternative, resulting in an enormous spike in 2024, when nearly 10,000 people perished - from shipwrecks, hypothermia, dehydration, or disease.
July 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The Canarian route has been in use since the 1990s, but EU deals that reduced Mediterranean crossings pushed migrants onto the far more dangerous Atlantic alternative, resulting in an enormous spike in 2024, when nearly 10,000 people perished - from shipwrecks, hypothermia, dehydration, or disease.
Beneath Mariama's journey lie memories of a childhood she needed to escape but has not yet found the words to speak about. Her story is one among thousands of unaccompanied minors who survived one of the world’s deadliest migration routes from the West African coast to Spain’s Canary Islands.
July 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Beneath Mariama's journey lie memories of a childhood she needed to escape but has not yet found the words to speak about. Her story is one among thousands of unaccompanied minors who survived one of the world’s deadliest migration routes from the West African coast to Spain’s Canary Islands.
Her father, who she describes as her ‘hero’ paid a smuggler approximately 60,000 Gambian dalasi — roughly £615 to take her to the Canary Islands. Every day, bodies disappear into the Atlantic — children, teenagers, men and women, swallowed by one of the world’s deadliest migration routes.
July 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Her father, who she describes as her ‘hero’ paid a smuggler approximately 60,000 Gambian dalasi — roughly £615 to take her to the Canary Islands. Every day, bodies disappear into the Atlantic — children, teenagers, men and women, swallowed by one of the world’s deadliest migration routes.
Mariama had left her home country, The Gambia, aged 16, crossed into Senegal, and boarded a wooden fishing boat carrying 182 people. It was her first time at sea. “People on the boat kept noticing me, that little girl there. But I was not scared,” she says.
July 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Mariama had left her home country, The Gambia, aged 16, crossed into Senegal, and boarded a wooden fishing boat carrying 182 people. It was her first time at sea. “People on the boat kept noticing me, that little girl there. But I was not scared,” she says.
Whether it’s the demolition of school buildings, detention of students, or direct violence from settlers, the classroom in the West Bank is fraught with danger and sustained focus is nearly impossible.
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Find the full story: lacuna.org.uk/war-and-peac...
West Bank schools at breaking point: The education crisis no one is talking about
“How can I focus on the laws of physics or the rules of language when the sound of gunfire or raids fills the classroom?” As conflict tightens its grip on the West Bank, classrooms are becoming frontl...
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July 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Whether it’s the demolition of school buildings, detention of students, or direct violence from settlers, the classroom in the West Bank is fraught with danger and sustained focus is nearly impossible.
Find the full story: lacuna.org.uk/war-and-peac...
Find the full story: lacuna.org.uk/war-and-peac...
Concerns about the erosion of the Palestinian identity in school curriculums also exist, with nearly 90% of all students across the region now following the Israeli syllabus.
July 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Concerns about the erosion of the Palestinian identity in school curriculums also exist, with nearly 90% of all students across the region now following the Israeli syllabus.
Dozens of schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have been sealed off over the years, on the grounds that they were “inciting against Israel”
July 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Dozens of schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have been sealed off over the years, on the grounds that they were “inciting against Israel”
Last year, the Israeli army launched a huge military operation in the northern West Bank, known as Iron Wall, resulting in one of the largest ever displacements of Palestinians. Around 12,000 children were forced out of refugee camps, and over 4,000 were left without access to education.
July 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Last year, the Israeli army launched a huge military operation in the northern West Bank, known as Iron Wall, resulting in one of the largest ever displacements of Palestinians. Around 12,000 children were forced out of refugee camps, and over 4,000 were left without access to education.
While the occupation forces impose blockades, intimidate and detain people at random, Israeli settlers arguably pose an equally – if not more – insidious threat to students, especially those living in isolated, rural regions.
July 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
While the occupation forces impose blockades, intimidate and detain people at random, Israeli settlers arguably pose an equally – if not more – insidious threat to students, especially those living in isolated, rural regions.
Ahmad Haje, 17-year-old student from Burqa, is one of over 780,000 pupils in the West Bank fighting for their right to learn.
July 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Ahmad Haje, 17-year-old student from Burqa, is one of over 780,000 pupils in the West Bank fighting for their right to learn.
Since the war in Gaza began, the West Bank has been increasingly overlooked by international media, despite facing one of the largest displacement crises since 1979, leaving thousands of children out of school.
July 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Since the war in Gaza began, the West Bank has been increasingly overlooked by international media, despite facing one of the largest displacement crises since 1979, leaving thousands of children out of school.
What does legality mean when it arrives with mass destruction, insufficient notice, and thousands of already marginalised people left on the street?
Find out more about the forced demolitions in India and read the full story at: lacuna.org.uk/justice/bull...
Find out more about the forced demolitions in India and read the full story at: lacuna.org.uk/justice/bull...
'Bulldozer justice': The survivors of India’s forced demolitions of Muslim shanty towns
In April 2025, a parade of 50 bulldozers carried out a forced demolition of 2,000 homes, referred to as “encroachments”, around Chandola Lake, in Ahmedabad, India. Bangali Vas wasn’t the first poor Mu...
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June 25, 2026 at 11:33 AM
What does legality mean when it arrives with mass destruction, insufficient notice, and thousands of already marginalised people left on the street?
Find out more about the forced demolitions in India and read the full story at: lacuna.org.uk/justice/bull...
Find out more about the forced demolitions in India and read the full story at: lacuna.org.uk/justice/bull...
While authorities insist they are clearing illegal structures, rather than targeting communities, those who have lived their whole lives in India were suddenly made to prove that they belonged to the only place they had ever known.
June 25, 2026 at 11:33 AM
While authorities insist they are clearing illegal structures, rather than targeting communities, those who have lived their whole lives in India were suddenly made to prove that they belonged to the only place they had ever known.
Across India, authorities have been raiding and demolishing Muslim Bangladeshi migrant communities, making bulldozers one of the most visible symbols of state authority in the country.
June 25, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Across India, authorities have been raiding and demolishing Muslim Bangladeshi migrant communities, making bulldozers one of the most visible symbols of state authority in the country.
“Children are born there. Families grow there. Futures are imagined there. In these places where the state refuses to see permanence, life insists on creating it."
June 25, 2026 at 11:33 AM
“Children are born there. Families grow there. Futures are imagined there. In these places where the state refuses to see permanence, life insists on creating it."