The Children’s Commissioner for England has called for ‘stronger action’ to protect young people from harmful content online.

Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the NEU, said the country should look at Australia where social media is banned for under-16s.

These weaknesses could have consequences for young people’s future employability, researchers warn.

Teaching materials will also help secondary school pupils to identify and scrutinise data and claims made by online influencers.

The Department for Education said the funding has been boosted to £37 million to help with expansion of funded childcare.

The DfE should better understand the potential impacts of T-levels before making decisions on wider technical qualifications landscape, report says.

Around two in three special schools in England were ‘at or over capacity’ in the last academic year, the Department for Education said.

Professor Kathleen Stock claims many ‘dim-witted’ and claustrophobic trans policies are still in place at universities.

School attendance policies should ‘prioritise encouragement and support over sanctions’, the NFER paper has said.

Sir Martyn Oliver told parents at a Q&A in London that he had walked into schools in ‘utter chaos’ where phones were rife.

The Office for Students issued a record high fine to the University of Sussex after an investigation found it had failed to uphold freedom of speech.

Rachel Reeves is expected to announce spending cuts for some Government departments.

More than 171,000 pupils missed at least half of possible school sessions in 2023/24, Department for Education statistics show.

The UK risks becoming an ‘incubator economy’, as tech start-ups are being ‘snapped up’ by international competitors, according to Universities UK.

The gap between childcare entitlements for disadvantaged families and working parents was ‘now wider than at any other time’, a charity warned.

The interim report sets out the areas of focus for its final report which will make recommendations to the Government in the autumn.

Pupil absence is a ‘key driver’ of the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers in England, think tank says.

Prof Becky Francis, chairwoman of the Government’s curriculum and assessment review, said national assessments and qualifications are ‘working well’.

Pepe Di’Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, will say fines ‘often deepen tensions’ with parents.

Bridget Phillipson said headteachers have the Government’s ‘full backing’ on removing phones from classrooms.