Hundreds of schools in England and Wales to close in heatwave

As England’s A-level results were published on Thursday morning, students across the country were pictured celebrating a bumper crop of results, with record rates of As

Attendance rates at England’s schools fell slightly this academic year, new data shows, with this summer’s heatwaves and higher levels of illness playing a part.

Coram is the UK’s longest and oldest serving children’s charity established in 1739. The charity collects data on behalf of the Department for Education and