Review of serious safeguarding failures finds young people from abusive environments ‘less visible’ to agenciesChildren who grow up in neglectful or abusive environments are safer attending school than being educated at home, according to a review of serious safeguarding failures in England in which six children died and 35 were harmed in one year.The report, by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, emphasised that while home education was not a safeguarding risk, it found that...
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan will tell teachers to explain "biological" facts and announce a consultation that proposes schools be barred from teaching sex education of any type before year 5, when children are nine years old.
Education secretary Gillian Keegan to announce guidelines for phased discussion of topics depending on pupils’ ageSex education in England’s primary schools is to be limited to those aged nine and over, with “explicit” discussions on topics such as contraception to be delayed until the age of 13, according to new guidance to be proposed by the government.The revised guidance on relationships, sex and health education is expected to be published this week by the education secretary, Gillian...
Regular school enrollment barely changed, charter schools down, statistics vary between MPS and DPI.
Huntingdonshire District Council said it did not have enough information to show there would not be “detrimental impacts on highway safety” from the new school
Schools are set to be banned from teaching sex education to children before the age of nine. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan will unveil proposals tomorrow for a total ban for under nines.
Relationships Education is compulsory for pupils from the age of four, and covers 'healthy, respectful relationships' both online and offline, but mainly focuses on family and friends.
There will be no functional difference within three years between elementary schools inside Manteca’s city limits whether it is the oldest (Lincoln School) built in 1952 or the newest (Veritas School) built in 2007 and those in between.
The government is due to publish updated sex education guidance for schools in England.
Shafaqna English- Dozens of children gathered Saturday in front of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza to demand reopening of schools and live in peace. Palestinian children are deprived of their right to education because of Israeli attacks. Organized by a group of young people, the children carried
The number of children who should be at school but are not registered with any educational establishment went up by one-third in the last academic year to 13,707, according to education ministry figures. The increase is “extremely shocking”, schools minister Mariëlle Paul told the upper house of parliament in a briefing. Nine years ago, the number of stay-at-home children was just under 6,000. Part of the increase is down to the number of Ukrainian nationals in the Netherlands. While 90%
Enrollment at California's public schools continued to decline this year, but by only .25%, or 15,000 students, state data showed, a much slower pace than the steep declines experienced during difficult pandemic years when classes were forced online. A total of 5,837,690 students were enrolled in the 2023-24 school year, according to data released Thursday from the state Department of Education. During the 2020-21 academic year, California experienced the largest drop in 20 years, losing 160,000...