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Teaching unions accuse government of ‘last-minute mess’ over England’s delayed school reopenings
Teaching unions have accused the government of “another last-minute mess” over delaying the start of the new school term in England.
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Schools in England told they cannot close early for Christmas
Schools in the London borough of Greenwich are being forced to stay open, even though the council wanted to move to online learning amid fears over rising Covid infection rates.
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Welsh secondary schools and colleges to move online to curb Covid transmission
Secondary schools and colleges in Wales will move to online learning from Monday.
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Children with special needs will suffer “lasting harm” from lockdown, says watchdog
Ofsted chief inspector said the “invisibility” of vulnerable children was a real cause for concern.
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FactCheck: government won’t say how much tiered restrictions will cost economy
Official analysis published last night doesn’t shed any light.
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‘Schools are responsible for those children who are excluded,’ says Robert Halfon MP
We began by asking Kendra Houseman about the importance of early intervention.
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FactCheck: Is this a green revolution?
Boris Johnson’s environment strategy has been billed as a “green industrial revolution”. But only a quarter of the £12bn of government spending announced this week is really new money.
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FactCheck: ministers’ confusing free school meals defence
The government is facing pressure to change course – including from some Conservative MPs.
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MPs vote against proposal to extend free school meals over the holidays
We have been to Birmingham to speak to families who are worried about feeding their children during next week’s school holiday.
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Students in England to be allowed home for Christmas
The Education Secretary has reassured students across England that they will be able to go home for Christmas after around 50 University campuses reported Covid outbreaks.
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Fears ‘lost generation’ unemployment could top a million
No jobs, no training, no opportunities – in an economy battered by the impact of the pandemic there’s little wonder that young people are being called the lost generation.
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‘The clearly anticipated surge that would happen as schools came back… was not planned for over the summer’: Prof Alan McNally
The microbiologist Prof Alan McNally, who helped set up the Lighthouse diagnostic labs network to support the fight against Covid, joined us from Birmingham.
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UK government labs struggling to cope with backlog of almost 200,000 tests
The coronavirus is spreading again across the UK but it’s getting harder to be tested – as government labs struggle to cope with a backlog of almost 200,000 tests.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s schools attack on Starmer
Boris Johnson claimed that Keir Starmer’s assertion today that ‘school is safe’ was ‘the first time in four months that he’s said it’.
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Top civil servant sacked after exams fiasco
The most senior official at England’s Department for Education has been sacked by the Prime Minister.