Sir Lenny Henry should pay reparations
From our UK edition
Iheard some odd things working as a teaching assistant. On one occasion, in December, I asked a nine-year-old if he knew what he would be getting for Christmas. His answer? A bed. When I spoke to the headteacher about it, she told me he lived with his single mother and five siblings in a two-bedroom flat. He had spent his entire life sleeping one night in a bed, one night on the floor, alternating with his brother. Not long after this, I was told to be ‘sensitive and understanding’ of any misbehaviour from another boy in the class. This was because the school had just discovered the family – mother, father and four children – had been made homeless after ‘causing trouble’ in their council-provided accommodation.
