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A headteacher has suspended 25 pupils in the first week of term at a school in Somerset.

Creditors owed millions of pounds by a company that ran illegal children’s homes have been told they won’t see a penny of their money.

The booming illegal children’s homes industry in England has been revealed for the first time, setting out the sheer scale of this shadow industry and the amount of public money being poured into it.

The sister of Ruth Perry, who took her own life after her school was downgraded by Ofsted, has told LBC she’s been contacted by at least a dozen teachers who have been left "feeling suicidal" after inspections from the watchdog - even after changes to assessments were made in the wake of her death.

With its neat garden and tightly closed blinds, the small terraced house on the windswept north-west peninsula of the Wirral looks unremarkable.

New technical education routes will be available to 14-year-olds as Andy Burnham drives reforms to tackle youth unemployment.

Parents of a child at a nursery targeted by paedophile Vincent Chan were warned by senior police officers that suspected paedophiles are using online message boards to share advice on how to secure jobs in UK nurseries.

A company that has received millions of pounds in public funding to care for vulnerable children was found to be housing a child in an unregistered, dilapidated property where they slept on a mattress on the floor.

It took over five years for an Ofsted inspector to clear his name after being dismissed for brushing water off a child’s head.

A survey by the National Education Union (NEU) found 82% think the current Ofsted system should be replaced as it has so many problems it ’would be better to start afresh’

Jason Ashley was furious at what was served at his school in Southampton and sent a letter to parents asking them to comment on the food also being given to their children

MPs demand an Ofsted shake-up after a inquest in December said a school inspection 'likely contributed' to the death of Caversham Primary School headteacher Ruth Perry

Deborah Lingard, a headteacher at Tyldesley Primary School in Wigan, was shown up for a marking error in her boss's son's exercise book during an Ofsted inspection, a tribunal in Manchester heard

Ofsted is set to publish a new policy on pausing an inspection of a maintained school or academy “where a serious issue has been identified” as part of its response following Ruth Perry's death

The NAHT school leaders’ union has called on Ofsted to introduce ungraded school inspections in the wake of head teacher Ruth Perry's death after a visit by the watchdog

New Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver has halted school inspections for mental health training following the suicide of Caversham Primary School headteacher Ruth Perry

Ofsted has apologised after Headteacher Ruth Perry was found dead after being told her school, Caversham Primary School in Reading, Berkshire, was being downgraded

Headteacher Ruth Perry was found dead after being told that her school, Caversham Primary School in Reading, Berkshire, was being downgraded from 'outstanding' to 'inadequate'

Shocking figures have emerged showing more than seventy percent of teachers in UK schools face serious mental health issues when their schools are inspected by Ofsted

Ruth Perry was said to have had the "worst day of her life" during an Ofsted inspection at Caversham Primary School in Reading, Berkshire, before she took her own life

Ruth Perry was headteacher of Caversham Primary School in Reading, and her husband Jonathan said she loved her job but was left "traumatised" by an Ofsted inspection last November

A report by the Institute For Public Policy Research has called for one-word Ofsted assessments to be scrapped and replaced by a "narrative-driven" approach - but what do YOU think

The IPPR warned teachers are being driven out of the profession by the stress caused by high-stakes Ofsted inspections as it called for the end of one-word ratings

Ex-England centre left Wakefield for part-timers Doncaster to help focus on other things apart from rugby league - including setting up a house in hometown Hull to help kids coming out of care

The inspectorate has been at the centre of a storm of criticism following the death of head teacher Ruth Perry in January and now former Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has hit out