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The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a Greater Manchester secondary school, tackling a wide range of social issues. The series deals with issues including child abandonment, homelessness, knife crime, bereavement, eviction, eating disorders, marital breakdown, refugee children, and the sexual objectification of girls. The series begins on the first day of the new academic term at William Beswick High School, which is beleaguered with student protests against the commemmoration of the school's fictional namesake, who was a slave trader. A student riot leads to parent Chlo Charles (Katie Griffiths) being hit by a car; she collapses later that evening and is pronounced dead.