SCHOOLCHILDREN with special needs have been left heartbroken after a shop which helps them gain qualifications and life skills was broken into - twice in one week.
Let’s Go Potty on May Day Green was set up to give pupils from Greenacre School a real-life work placement.
They come into the shop to make and sell things such as pictures, cushions and candles and also serve customers.
Placements also help students to learn literacy and numeracy in a practical way.
Manager Gemma Thickett said: “I just couldn’t believe it. The biggest thing is how upset the students are. Explaining to them what’s happened has been hard. One little boy keeps pointing to the window and asking what has happened.
“It’s bad enough when it happens to anyone, but every penny we make keeps it going for the students.
“What this is going to cost to repair could have been spent on the students. It’s not our shop, it’s the students’ shop. Whoever has done it should be disgusted in themselves.”
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