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Poll of primary teachers finds pupils more likely to complain about being bored and provoke others in classMost primary schoolteachers think children’s attention spans are getting shorter and classroom behaviour has deteriorated since before the Covid …
Less regulation of weight-loss drug would make Wegovy accessible to more peopleMinisters are launching a £40m pilot scheme to trial wider access to the controversial slimming jab Wegovy, to examine how people could receive the drug outside hospitals.Un…
Bumper earnings for National Grid and M&S chiefs come as energy firms and supermarkets are accused of ‘greedflation’Companies at the centre of the cost of living crisis have paid millions to their chief executives as households struggle with soarin…
Principal of high-performing sixth form said two forms are ‘deeply unequal’ and diminish womenTeachers at a leading sixth form will no longer answer to “Sir” and “Miss”, because they’re “deeply unequal” and feed into a view of the world that diminishes…
David Willetts asks PM to consider a postwar-style plan for affordable homes in next Tory manifestoRishi Sunak has been urged to consider a postwar-style programme of new town construction to tackle the collapse in home ownership among young adults.Dav…
Exclusive: volunteers sought in England to take equipment and drugs to people’s homes among other tasksHealth ministers are to recruit a new volunteer army for social care to ferry medical equipment and drugs to people’s homes in a bid to free up conge…
UKHSA figures also show gonorrhoea diagnoses rose by 50% to 82,600 – the most since records began in 1918Cases of syphilis were at their highest level in 75 years in England last year while gonorrhoea cases reached a record high, figures show, amid con…
Single-use e-cigarettes growing in popularity among young people despite unknown health effects and environmental impactChildren’s doctors are calling for an outright ban on disposable vapes to reduce their popularity among young people as the long-ter…
Only one in three UK children now enjoy writing in their free time – including text messages – with those on free school meals most likely to do soNew research from the National Literacy Trust shows that children’s interest in writing has reached a “cr…
Lawyer for bereaved families says Heather Hallett would be unable to do job if government blocks releaseUK politics live – latest updatesThe chair of the UK Covid-19 public inquiry may have to quit if the government succeeds in its high court attempt t…