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School absence fines have increased from £60 to £80 under the changes. and figures suggest this has had an impact

Police have scrambled to respond to a school in lockdown after the academy received a ‘threatening phone call’.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the free schoold breakfast programme to tackle child hunger will kick-off in schools in April 2025 as she delivered a major speech

Scottish government accused of undermining efforts to tackle child poverty and the cost of living crisis

You might be looking forward to your children returning to school this month, but chances are your bank balance is not.

IT is every parent’s worst nightmare that their child will go off the rails in their school years.

Government funded Parkfield, in Dorset, after ‘unbelievable’ lack of due diligence, says expert

A senior staff member at an independent school for children with special educational needs has been recorded by BBC Panorama saying how he wanted to drown a pupil in a bath “like a kitten”.

Earl Spencer, the younger brother of Princess Diana, said earlier this year that he was sexually abused as a child and detailed how he suffered at the hands of a female member of staff when he was at Maidwell Hall boarding school.

Ketamine is being used by schoolchildren as young as 14, it has been warned, with teenagers ending up have to use colostomy bags for life because of the effects of the drug on their bladder

An active shooter at a middle school in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, was ‘neutralized’ by police who stopped the individual from breaking inside the campus.

Staff were filmed hitting, kicking and leaving special school pupils in their own urine, the BBC has found.

A special needs teacher and head of year were stabbed in a school playground before a hero colleague managed to "disarm a teen girl".

Spanish teacher Nohema Graber was a firm favourite at Fairfield High School in Iowa. She was popular with the students and her colleagues loved how she inspired others to try to achieve their best.

A baby bust is starting to work its way through the system

One student has been injured in a shooting at a high school in Dallas and cops have taken a suspect into custody.

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’

Predator’s ’sordid secret’ revealed when cops searched vile lover’s phone