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The Budget Will Cost Some Nurseries £50,000 A Year, Early Years Sector Warns
The Budget Will Cost Some Nurseries £50,000 A Year, Early Years Sector Warns
Education
The early years sector has warned that the failure to fund private nurseries for Budget measures will cost the average setting an additional £50,000 a year.
Plan To Put Nurseries In Schools Could Face Take Up Issues, Early Years Providers Warn
Education
Plan To Put Nurseries In Schools Could Face Take Up Issues, Early Years Providers Warn
Work From Home Push Yet To Make Difference In 'Understaffed' Schools
Education
Work From Home Push Yet To Make Difference In "Understaffed" Schools
There's 'Much More To Do' To Combat Misogyny In Schools, Says Minister
Education
There's "Much More To Do" To Combat Misogyny In Schools, Says Minister
Oxbridge Should 'Move' Towards How US Universities Are Funded
Education
Oxbridge Should "Move" Towards How US Universities Are Funded
Ofsted 'Culpable' For Poor Children Falling Further Behind, Says Body's Former Head
Education
Ofsted "Culpable" For Poor Children Falling Further Behind, Says Body's Former Head
Criminal Exploitation Of Children Rises By 55 Per Cent In Two Years, Data Suggests
Education
Criminal Exploitation Of Children Rises By 55 Per Cent In Two Years, Data Suggests
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Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
Health
By Tali Fraser
Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
Cracking The Screen: Josh MacAlister on his bid to get kids off their phones
Education
By Tali Fraser
Cracking The Screen: Josh MacAlister on his bid to get kids off their phones
Children in care are being moved far from home – my bill would start to address this crisis
Education
By Jake Richards MP
Children in care are being moved far from home – my bill would start to address this crisis
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Young Tories Set Up Campaign To Help Party Avoid 'Terminal' Decline
Young Tories Set Up Campaign To Help Party Avoid "Terminal" Decline
Political parties
Outgoing Hereditary Peers Criticise 'Nasty' Plans To Abolish Them
Outgoing Hereditary Peers Criticise "Nasty" Plans To Abolish Them
Political parties
Why are young women so unlikely to support Reform?
Why are young women so unlikely to support Reform?
By Sophie Stowers
Political parties
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Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
Health
By Tali Fraser
Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
The Cass Review into NHS gender services for children opened up the national conversation on this controversial subject, and divided opinion. Its author, Baroness Cass, speaks to Tali Fraser about being newly introduced as a peer and how she responds to critics. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer
SEND Help: How to reform our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system
Education
By Matilda Martin
SEND Help: How to reform our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system
“Lose, lose, lose.” That is how former Conservative education secretary Gillian Keegan described the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England, widely described as broken.
Growth, Railways And Energy Focus Of Labour Government's First King's Speech
Environment
Growth, Railways And Energy Focus Of Labour Government's First King's Speech
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has set out 40 pieces of legislation the Labour Government will aim to deliver in his first King's Speech.
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The Budget Will Cost Some Nurseries £50,000 A Year, Early Years Sector Warns
Education
The Budget Will Cost Some Nurseries £50,000 A Year, Early Years Sector Warns
The early years sector has warned that the failure to fund private nurseries for Budget measures will cost the average setting an additional £50,000 a year.
Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
Health
By Tali Fraser
Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
The Cass Review into NHS gender services for children opened up the national conversation on this controversial subject, and divided opinion. Its author, Baroness Cass, speaks to Tali Fraser about being newly introduced as a peer and how she responds to critics. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer
Plan To Put Nurseries In Schools Could Face Take Up Issues, Early Years Providers Warn
Education
Plan To Put Nurseries In Schools Could Face Take Up Issues, Early Years Providers Warn
Early years providers could be "discouraged" from taking part in the Government's push to increase the number of school-based nurseries, the sector has warned.
Cracking The Screen: Josh MacAlister on his bid to get kids off their phones
Education
By Tali Fraser
Cracking The Screen: Josh MacAlister on his bid to get kids off their phones
Josh MacAlister wants children to spend less time on their phones and far fewer of them in residential care. The former teacher tells Tali Fraser his experience of working across party lines is helping build support. Photography by Elio Zhang
Children in care are being moved far from home – my bill would start to address this crisis
Education
By Jake Richards MP
Children in care are being moved far from home – my bill would start to address this crisis
Aged 15, Jade was moved to a children’s home. Instead of finding her somewhere nearby in London, Jade’s local authority placed her in Lancashire, 250 miles away from everyone she knew. What was initially meant to be a two-week placement lasted two years, she told ITV.
SEND Help: How to reform our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system
Education
By Matilda Martin
SEND Help: How to reform our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system
“Lose, lose, lose.” That is how former Conservative education secretary Gillian Keegan described the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England, widely described as broken.
Preparing for an Unknown Future: The Net Zero Skills Challenge Partner content
Environment
By UKCRIC
Preparing for an Unknown Future: The Net Zero Skills Challenge
Many of the sectors, industries, and jobs that will support the Net Zero transition do not yet exist. When we are so unsure of what our future skills needs will be, how can we prepare a skilled workforce ready to create the infrastructure of tomorrow? PoliticsHome sat down with experts from UKCRIC to learn more about the Net Zero skills challenge
Work From Home Push Yet To Make Difference In 'Understaffed' Schools
Education
Work From Home Push Yet To Make Difference In "Understaffed" Schools
A Department for Education push to give teachers more flexibility in terms of where they work has not led to a rise in home working, new data suggests.
I’m a former deputy headteacher – taxing private schools is only fair
Education
By Sureena Brackenridge
I’m a former deputy headteacher – taxing private schools is only fair
As a former deputy headteacher, with over 25 years’ experience working in state schools with many students from disadvantaged backgrounds, I know first-hand the impact of funding disparities across our education system.
VAT on private schools is a step too far
Education
By Rachael Maskell MP
VAT on private schools is a step too far
The independent sector has become the backstop for neurodivergent, anxious and trauma-experienced children failed by our broken state education system
Apprenticeships: Investing for the Future Partner content
Education
By JTL
Apprenticeships: Investing for the Future
Apprenticeships in highly skilled trades such as electrical engineering and plumbing are essential for home-building and the net-zero transition, investing in them now will help future-proof the workforce
There's 'Much More To Do' To Combat Misogyny In Schools, Says Minister
Education
There's "Much More To Do" To Combat Misogyny In Schools, Says Minister
The Government has "much more to do" to tackle misogyny in schools, the minister for early education has said.
Stephen Morgan: 'I’m really conscious that parents have had it pretty tough'
Education
By Matilda Martin
Stephen Morgan: 'I’m really conscious that parents have had it pretty tough'
The first-ever early education minister Stephen Morgan tells Matilda Martin what’s keeping him awake at night as he works to deliver a key election pledge
Beyond the pay rise: bold steps to make teaching a profession of choice Partner content
Education
By University of Birmingham
Beyond the pay rise: bold steps to make teaching a profession of choice
While there is strong interest in teaching careers, significant challenges remain around workload, retention and entry barriers. To strengthen recruitment and retention, the government must promote teaching as a career early on, increase undergraduate enrolment in shortage subjects, and re-evaluate how teacher training providers screen applicants.
Breakfast clubs do more than just provide a meal: they're the reason some kids go to school
Education
By Andrew Ranger MP
Breakfast clubs do more than just provide a meal: they're the reason some kids go to school
At this year’s Labour Party Conference, my colleague Bridget Phillipson MP addressed the hall, stating that “education is so much more than the classroom.”
It has been a year since the Online Safety Act became law – yet we’re still waiting for action
Education
By Sir Peter Wanless
It has been a year since the Online Safety Act became law – yet we’re still waiting for action
A year since the groundbreaking Online Safety Act became law, the risks children face online seem to be worse than ever. From AI child abuse images to sophisticated ‘sextortion’ gangs and addictive algorithms, the pace of technology, and those who seek to exploit it, has overtaken the shift towards safety.
Oxbridge Should 'Move' Towards How US Universities Are Funded
Education
Oxbridge Should "Move" Towards How US Universities Are Funded
The country's most prestigious universities should become more like US colleges in how they are funded, candidate for next Oxford chancellor Dominic Grieve has said. 
Ofsted 'Culpable' For Poor Children Falling Further Behind, Says Body's Former Head
Education
Ofsted "Culpable" For Poor Children Falling Further Behind, Says Body's Former Head
Ofsted is "at fault and culpable" for disadvantaged pupils falling further behind their peers, the former chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has told PoliticsHome.
Criminal Exploitation Of Children Rises By 55 Per Cent In Two Years, Data Suggests
Education
Criminal Exploitation Of Children Rises By 55 Per Cent In Two Years, Data Suggests
Cases of child criminal exploitation have increased sharply in the last two years, a new analysis shared with PoliticsHome shows.
Labour MP Warns Homeless Families Are Using Schools As 'Support Hubs'
Education
Labour MP Warns Homeless Families Are Using Schools As "Support Hubs"
A new Labour MP who was a deputy head teacher before being elected says families are turning up to schools with their belongings having been evicted from their homes. 
Early Years Sector Writes To Chancellor Over Post-Budget Concerns
Education
Early Years Sector Writes To Chancellor Over Post-Budget Concerns
Exclusive: "The silence from Treasury" in the aftermath of the Budget is "illogical and unacceptable", the early years sector has warned.
Designing and delivering “resilient, sustainable, thriving communities” through infrastructure Partner content
Education
By Policy@Manchester
Designing and delivering “resilient, sustainable, thriving communities” through infrastructure
New University of Manchester report stresses the importance of making informed, long-term decisions on the UK’s infrastructure
Parliament has a duty to engage with schools to promote a thriving democracy
Education
By Lord McFall
Parliament has a duty to engage with schools to promote a thriving democracy
Some of the most influential experiences in my life came not from being in Westminster for almost 40 years, but from my time as a teacher in the West of Scotland in the 1970s.
What Next For The University Crisis?
Education
What Next For The University Crisis?
​The announcement this week that tuition fees will go up for the first time in eight years has received mixed reaction.
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