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Support isn’t getting to deaf children who desperately need it, according to a leading charity, who say there’s a “heartbreaking” funding crisis for special needs education. A survey by the Deaf Children’s Society shows nine out of ten parents of deaf children are worried about how much support they’ll continue getting at school. Ministers, though,…
Cathy Newman is joined by Education Minister Nadhim Zahawi, the Conservative MP for Stratford upon Avon, to discuss the future of May’s Brexit Deal.
Overnight polling from YouGov suggests people are generally negative about government negotiations with the EU so far.
Ofsted inspectors in England could stop using exam results as the key indicator of success – as the chief inspector of schools outlined new plans which she said should reward “real education” instead. Amanda Spielman said the changes didn’t mean going “soft and wishy-washy” – but focussing too narrowly on test results often left little…
At the forefront of the battle against poverty for more than a century: Toynbee Hall in London’s East End has helped to pioneer social reform. And with a recent report finding more than one in ten people in the UK live in persistent poverty – its work has never been more crucial. The Victorian building…
A group of parents have been at the High Court today, in an attempt to challenge what they call cuts in services for their children with disabilities.
The epidemic of violence in our jails is not just confined to adult prisons.
Fewer courses, less spending on students and reduced teaching hours: the result of a squeeze on spending over the last eight years in school sixth forms and colleges across England.
One teaching union has conducted a survey which reveals that mainstream schools are struggling to resource support for pupils with special needs. We went to meet an autistic boy who’s been stuck at home for nearly a year. His mum says he’s been failed by the system.
People from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds are still under-represented in most mainstream children’s books, according to a study by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education.
It’s a film about sexuality, acceptance and coming of age, which won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, based on a true story about a teenage lesbian who’s sent to a ‘conversion therapy’ camp in 1990s Montana. The Miseducation of Cameron Post is directed by the US/Iranian filmmaker Desiree Akhavan, who’s becoming…
Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, has died aged 80. He was the first black African to be appointed to the post during turbulent times in the world including the Iraq war. The Nobel Prize winning diplomat will be remembered for establishing international goals to reduce extreme poverty but his tenure …
In a heartfelt and searing goodbye letter to Britain, the departing Barbados High Commissioner has told Channel 4 News that the UK should establish a “truth and reconciliation commission” to deal with the fall out from the Windrush scandal.
As I sit on the 14:30 train from King’s Cross to York for what is my last train ride across England, in pursuit of trade links with Scarborough, there is a certain ambivalence to my taking leave of the UK at the end of August after what has been a rewarding four years as High…
More than a hundred education leaders are calling on the Home Secretary to reduce Britain’s child citizenship fees, which a campaign group says are the highest in Europe. At a thousand pounds per child, registration costs ten times more than in Spain, France and Sweden. The chief inspector of borders and immigration has launched a…