White paper being prepared as councils hope for relief from huge deficits in special educational needs budgets‘A ticking time bomb’: the neglected crisis of Send education in EnglandLabour is preparing major changes...
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Read MoreExclusive: Ministers considering options to bring down child poverty without removing rule entirelyUK politics live – latest updatesParents of under-fives could be exempted from the government’s two-child benefit...
Read MoreAs the education secretary announces the first primary schools to offer free breakfasts, Labour MPs question the commitment to fighting povertyThe government is trumpeting its policy of introducing free breakfast clubs into all...
Read MoreEx-children’s commissioner welcomes crackdown on use of children for crimes such as running county linesLong-overdue laws to protect children forced into selling drugs across county lines will save lives and block a...
Read MoreExperts say greater awareness is needed of the misery that can be caused by the conditionLaxatives and nappies: how schools are coping with constipation in pupilsMore than 44,000 children were admitted to hospital with...
Read MoreRising demand and ballooning council deficits have left a threadbare service – and children and parents in crisisSuccessful complaints about councils’ special educational needs and disability (Send)...
Read MoreResearchers estimate lifetime earnings lost as charities call for independent review of causes of the crisisMore than £1tn will be lost in lifetime earnings in the UK as a direct result of the mental health crisis in young...
Read MoreThinktank suggests ministers’ failure to raise LHA will push 90,000 more families into hardship in the next yearNearly 1 million children in the UK are at risk of falling into poverty or will face financial hardship as a...
Read More‘Covid baby’ explanation starting to feel like an excuse, say some teachers, as quarter of children begin reception in nappiesSome children are starting reception school “unable to climb a staircase”,...
Read MoreChildren’s commissioner says young people involved in disorder felt disempowered and saw chance to retaliateA deep distrust of the police and a lack of youth opportunities fuelled the involvement of hundreds of...
Read MoreStudy of GP records finds prevalence rose from one in 60,000 in 2011 to one in 1,200 in 2021 – but numbers still low overallThe number of children and young people in England with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria recorded...
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