Schools

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MPs vote against compulsory sex and relationships education

Proposed legislation to make sex and relationship education (SRE) mandatory in all UK schools has been rejected by a parliamentary committee. Currentl...
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Vulnerable children inadvertently ‘re-retraumatised’

Report by mental health charity YoungMinds has claimed that schools, social workers, police and NHS staff may be inadvertently re-traumatising vulnera...
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Schools and local authorities failing young carers

Results in The Children’s Society’s recent report, There’s nobody is there - no one who can actually help?, has found that schools and...
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Enhanced DBS checks for governors

Government amended legislation has been published that makes enhanced DBS checks mandatory for governors in maintained schools. The new rules come int...
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Identifying children who are missing education

Department for Education is seeking views on plans to require schools to report when they add or remove a pupil’s name from their pupil admissions r...
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Guidance for schools on bomb alerts

Following bomb threats to schools in January 2016, the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) has sent out guidance to schools on reviewi...