School Inclusion Units Study Visit

Some schools in the UK have ‘inclusion units’ for young people who may have been affected by criminal activity, violence to staff or other pupils and behavioural issues which can, in turn, cause disruption within the learning environment. These inclusion units are often based on experiential learning. This project will seek to take a cross-sectoral approach by inviting applications from participants currently working as teachers, or other school staff, social workers, youth workers in connection to a school, and people working with young people on a daily basis who have the possibility to implement projects or to be included in the implementation of projects in the future. This project will be a study visit, training course and seminar, with a focus on linking professionals in order to share expertise, opinions and working methods. This will lead to a more collaborative approach towards fostering inclusion. The key objective of this project is to support the development of young people excluded from education and those at risk of exclusion through: • increasing the understanding of the benefits of non-formal education as a method of inclusive education by sharing good practise • national and international partnership building and promoting working strategies within these partnership within the Erasmus+ framework • encouraging cross-sectoral work within the formal/non-formal field.