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Record high in top grade A-level results
There’s something to celebrate for students whose education has been disrupted for another year by the pandemic – a record number of A and A* grades in A-levels in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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FactCheck: Sturgeon childcare savings claim needs context
The Scottish government has recently expanded free childcare.
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‘Huge blackspots’ in knowledge of Northern Ireland’s history, says Derry Girls actress
She is best known for her starring role in the hit comedy Derry Girls, but now Siobhán McSweeney, who plays Headteacher Sister Michael in the show, is turning her hand to the real life beauty to be found in Northern Ireland.
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FactCheck Q&A: Why are we vaccinating 16 and 17-year-olds?
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) updated its advice today after weighing the potential harms and benefits of offering the vaccine to 16 and 17-year-olds.
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National disability strategy a missed opportunity, say campaigners
The government has unveiled its £1.6 billion national disability strategy to a somewhat muted response.
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UK’s disadvantaged kids to get extra speaking and listening lessons
Children’s education has been hugely disrupted by the pandemic – but the impact has by no means been equal.
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The reality of British children in poverty: no beds to sleep in or clean clothes to wear
Exclusive. Britain’s leading children’s charities are warning that cuts to children’s services, which are having the greatest impact on the poorest, most vulnerable families, risk leaving a “damaging legacy”.
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FactCheck: Youth services have seen big cuts over the last decade
The YMCA found that spending on youth services has been cut by 71 per cent in real terms since 2010/11 – or almost a billion pounds.
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Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera revealing how the oil giant is using its power and influence to water down US climate legislation.
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Tens of thousands of students absent as Covid school disruption soars
Ministers have suggested that the current rules, which mean whole bubbles of pupils have to self-isolate if there are cases, might be changed by the autumn.
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US marks ‘Juneteenth’ with federal holiday for the first time
Today commemorates the 156th anniversary of the end of slavery in the US. For the first time, Americans have marked ‘Juneteenth’ with a federal holiday, as signed into law this week by President Joe Biden.
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Revealed: Over 6,000 sex offences reported in and around schools in three years
More than 6,300 allegations of sexual assault and harassment in and around schools across England and Wales were reported to police in three years, the equivalent of at least five offences every day, Channel 4 News can reveal. Some 633 of these reports were rapes or attempted rapes.
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‘Children and young people should be a priority’, says Labour’s Kate Green
We spoke to the Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green.
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England schools catch-up tsar resigns over funding
The man charged with overseeing plans to help children catch up on missed education in England has resigned just four months into the job.
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Young Black people ‘three times more likely to be unemployed’
The unemployment rate for Black people is more than twice the rate for the white population, and for young Black people it is even higher.