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Exclusive: Gillian Keegan opens up about 16-year-old relative as government prepares to publish Send improvement planThe education secretary, Gillian Keegan, has described her family’s battle to get the right support for her nephew, who has Down’s synd…
Support grows for expansion of free school meals to struggling families in face of rising hungerThe number of UK children in food poverty has nearly doubled in the last year to almost 4 million, new data shows, ramping up pressure on ministers to expan…
Patients in New Brunswick with array of symptoms ‘show signs of exposure to glyphosate’, says neurologistA neurologist who believes his patients are suffering from a suspicious illness has pleaded with the Canadian government to carry out environmental…
Offering places by proximity results in selection of pupils from more affluent households, say researchersDisadvantaged children are suffering “geographic exclusion” from England’s best state schools because they cannot afford to live near those with t…
Treatment waiting times at worst-ever levels as post-Covid recovery programme ‘falling short’A £14bn plan to reduce NHS backlogs caused by Covid is failing to meet targets, with cancer waiting times at their worst-ever levels, parliament’s spending wat…
Lib Dems say levelling-up secretary is ‘living in a different century’ with the proposalMichael Gove has suggested that parents who fail to ensure their children attend school regularly could have their child benefit payments stopped.Gove has argued su…
Traffickers are changing methods of ensnaring children, parliamentary education committee hearsCounty lines adverts on Instagram and Snapchat designed to groom children and young people now resemble professional job adverts, a parliamentary committee h…
Villagers of Staveley want to turn closed care home into new facility for older people but have run into council roadblockShortfall of £2.3bn a year in England’s care homes ‘putting people at risk’Hospitals are clogged with patients fit for discharge w…
Vaccine status of more than 400 children near Bilbao investigated amid concerns about anti-vaxxer nurseDozens of families in Spain’s Basque Country have taken legal action after a nurse was accused of faking the administration of routine child vaccinat…
Menopausal women could be offered paid time off as part of efforts to support wellbeing of womenMenopausal women could be offered paid time off and working environments with temperature-controlled areas under Labour plans to support the wellbeing of wo…