The education secretary says schools may need to “broach a topic sooner”, but that parents would be informed.

Bilton School in Rugby apologised after preventing a pupil from making a speech at school while wearing a union jack dress.

The school will be created using portable buildings, rather than looking anything like Hogwarts.

Children from lower-income families also remain significantly behind their peers as impact of pandemic continues to be felt

Five-year-olds with special educational needs in England are lagging a record 20 months behind their peers, according to a report that says the country’s youngest learners face a “deepening crisis”, five years after the pandemic.

Since Covid closed schools, disrupting...

Government says new guidance will challenge ‘manosphere’ myths as DfE reports epidemic-scale misogyny

Secondary school pupils in England are to be taught about “incel” culture and the links between pornography and misogyny as part of long-awaited statutory government guidance due to be published on Tuesday.

It will include a new focus on positive role models for boys and challenge “myths...

Justices lift federal judge’s order that reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs in win for president

The US supreme court on Monday cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education as part of his bid to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more control by the states.

In the latest high court win for...

BBC Surrey political reporter, Jack Fiehn, looks at the plans for a two week half term in 2026.

Funding for social impact bonds to help children facing mental health difficulties, school exclusion or crime

Rachel Reeves will announce £500m for charities and civil society organisations to invest in youth services on Monday as the government seeks to combat accusations it is not doing enough to tackle child poverty.

The chancellor will launch a new “better futures fund”, which will give...

Two fathers tell education secretary they will seek judicial review in bid for statutory ban to safeguard children

Two fathers plan to take legal action against the government in an attempt to get smartphones banned in schools in England.

Will Orr-Ewing and Pete Montgomery wrote to the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, on Friday warning that they would seek a judicial review. They argue...

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Susie, from Sheffield, was unemployed for nine months after she graduated with a PhD last year, despite having applied to more than 700 jobs.

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The two fathers say the current guidance on smartphones in schools is unsafe for children.

A charity says its mentoring support could become stretched with more free school meal pupils eligible for help.

Preschool establishment asked for extra compulsory fee for ‘consumables’ – but it should have been free

A nursery has refunded a father almost £1,200 after an investigation found he had been charged mandatory “top-up” fees for hours of childcare that should have been free.

Tiago Gomes’s daughter was eligible for government-funded childcare at the Lake House day nursery and preschool in...

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A mainstream London school with a high number of children with EHCPs has effectively set up a mini special school within its walls

The classroom within All Saints Catholic college, west London, looks much like any other classroom. But this one offers a solution to England’s crisis in special needs education.

On one recent summer day the class was doing creative writing. Yet with every pupil...

Suspensions and exclusions rose in the last school year – with a significant increase among primary-age pupils.

Charity says system is failing to support children at a young age and points to Covid as contributing factor

More than 10,000 children were excluded from England’s state schools last year, alongside record numbers of suspensions involving pupils younger than six or with special needs, as teachers struggled to cope with worsening behaviour.

The figures for the 2023-24 academic year revealed that...

Calls are made for teacher racism training as figures suggest a rise in suspensions in Kent schools.

The cost of all-inclusive family package holidays to many popular destinations has risen this year.

Only a week after the government was forced to retreat on benefits reform, there’s now controversy over its plans for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send). John Harris speaks to Kate Cox, a parent of two children with special needs, about why there’s such concern about the plans.

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A 3p rise in free school meals funding is “almost an insult”, school caterers organisation LACA says.