All news on the topic: Education Department

From September a fine will be considered for all parents if a child misses five days of school for an "unauthorised absence" with fines starting from £80 and rising to £160

Teachers say children as young as seven are throwing furniture, ripping posters from walls and storming out of classrooms

Polly Hudson on the latest fiasco with the Tories, the unforgiveable oversight, despite many warnings, of not dealing with the now very present danger of our crumbling schools