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Benefit will depend on how much parents can afford to contribute, with wealthier families getting ‘an extra leg up’, critics sayFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news …
This week’s budget expected to include support to ease financial pressure, but attached to greater obligations to seek workPoorer working parents are to be given more help with the costs of childcare as part of this week’s budget, after warnings that s…
Senior Tories condemn ‘sickening’ plans which would allow unaccompanied minors to be held, in U-turn on past legislationRishi Sunak’s plan to reduce small boat crossings will effectively reverse a ban on child detention implemented under David Cameron …
‘Barbaric’ to take away exam chance after all teenage refugees have overcome, headteacher saysTwo 16-year-old Afghan refugee girls will not be able to sit their GCSEs because the Home Office is moving them out of London weeks before their exams without…
Ofsted inspection process ‘isn’t working’, shadow education secretary tells headteachersA Labour government would create an annual review of safeguarding in schools as concerns about children’s safety and wellbeing are being “missed” due to “infrequent…
Head of one Hertfordshire school in survey of 14- to 18-year-olds says it has led to rise in sexual abuseA major new survey of British schoolchildren’s attitudes to pornography has found significant numbers of young people aged between 14 and 18 are wa…
Sutton Trust calls on government not to cut post-Covid funding as figures show 37% of children in poor homes had tutoringThe tuition gap between rich and poor families in England has almost disappeared thanks to the government’s pandemic recovery progr…
Three families share their struggles with finding and affording nursery places and childminders“Before I even went to my first scan, my unborn baby’s name was down on a nursery waiting list,” says Laura Williams, 31. This was her second child and it ha…
Two other studies also show there are insufficient places in half of the country’s councilsThe scale of the childcare crisis in England has been exposed by new data showing some parents face spending as much as 80% of their take-home pay on childcare w…
Tory MPs’ claims of extreme graphic lessons at England’s schools written off as ‘inflammatory rhetoric’Teaching unions have criticised a “politically motivated” review of the way sex education is taught in schools, after Conservative MPs voiced concern…