Heartsick over the loss of more than 800 Inuit who have seen no way through their pain except to end their own lives,1 Inuit Tapiirit Kanatami (ITK), the national Inuit political association, recently released an evidence-based suicide prevention strategy.2 The culturally specific strategy is intended to address the glaring void that has been left by Canada’s lack of a national suicide preventi...

This small-scale survey evaluated the impact of National Strategy approaches to intervention on pupils working just below national expectations in a small sample of 12 primary and nine secondary schools. Intervention was more effective in the primary schools than in the secondary schools visited and stemmed from careful analysis of pupils’ weaknesses, flexible planning of programmes, thorough t...