Teachers and social workers ‘miss chances to stop sex offending in boys’

Report finds social services and schools ignore patterns of sexually inappropriate behaviour Teachers and social workers are missing opportunities to intervene early to prevent entrenched patterns of sexual offending developing among boys and young men, according to criminal justice inspectors. Their report says that social services and schools are sweeping early signs of sexual offending [...]

Letters: Miss Blackburn was a true champion of education for girls

I must set the record straight about Miss Blackburn (Sam Wollaston, 30 January). She was a champion of education for girls at a time when many people thought it was wasted “because they’ll only get married”. Many schools expected just a few of their brightest girls to go on to higher education. Not so Miss [...]

Truants miss 3.7m school days in one term, official figures show

Department for Education reveals unauthorised absence rate for state primary and secondary schools in England Around 3.7 million school days were missed last autumn as pupils skipped lessons without permission, official figures show. On a typical day in autumn 2011 around 55,600 youngsters missed school, according to an analysis of government statistics. Around 48,000 children [...]

One in seven pupils miss out on first choice secondary school

Admission figures for England show inner London has lowest proportion of children getting first preference school Around one in seven children in England missed out on a place at their first preference secondary school this year, official figures show. Statistics published by the Department for Education reveal that 14.7% of the nearly 504,000 11-year-olds who [...]

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