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A teenager given a tent to live in, and a child denied the chance to say “goodbye” to his dying mother feature in a report

Schools in England will be allowed to close a day early for Christmas to give teachers “a proper break” from identifying potential Covid-19 cases. Schools

Extra measures to “boost fairness and support students” will be used for next summer’s GCSE and A-level exams in England, ministers have announced. More generous

England’s education secretary acted unlawfully in scrapping a string of legal protections for children in care, Appeal Court judges have ruled. They said Gavin Williamson

Vulnerable children expelled from mainstream schools are at risk of being “preyed upon” because of worryingly poor attendance at the specialist institutions tasked with teaching

Gavin Williamson could be set to announce plans for GCSE students in England to be told their exam topics in advance and marked more generously in the wake

Thousands of children with special educational needs were only offered support after they were excluded from school, the BBC has learned. A Freedom of Information

Parents are being forced to deregister their children from school and home-educate or else face fines and prosecution for non-attendance after keeping them out of

The coronavirus pandemic could be fuelling an increase in the number of children moving out of full-time schooling, town hall bosses warn. The Local Government