What to do with teenagers who've been kicked out of school

Broadcast on the World Tonight, BBC Radio 4 22nd Feb 2011. Here's Robin Lustig's cue: No curriculum, no targets, no-one looking over your shoulder. It sounds like a teacher's dream, and it is, which is why a group of teachers in Norwich left their jobs and set up their own business to teach the city's most difficult teenagers. It's the second of the three "social enterprises" that we're visiting this week -- businesses that were set up with the primary aim of doing something socially useful rather than just making a profit. All three have been recognised as the most innovative in their field by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, which supports socially-motivated businesses. Social enterprises have been growing more quickly than other forms of business during the economic downturn -- but as Charlotte Ashton reports, it's not all plain-sailing.