I have had a number of roles in alternative provision, but by far my favourite was working as the Teacher-in-charge of a psychiatric in-patient service. On my 21st birthday I was interviewed for the role and got it (I might have been 22, it was a while ago!) I remember talking in the interview about Goffman’s work on the presentation of the self, how I would approach safeguarding issues and was so eager to change children’s experiences of education. Education saved me, there