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BBC News - Education and Family
News and features from BBC News - Education and Family
- Childcare shortage worsens as costs rise – report
Fewer than a third of councils in all areas have enough spaces for children under two, a charity fin…
- Schools failing children with allergies - report
A Cambridgeshire mum wants changes to the law to protect children with allergies after her son died.
- The rehab service that keeps families together
Harper House supports parents to get clean while still having responsibility for their children.
- PM pledges to create 20,000 more apprenticeships
The government says it will fully fund training for people under 21 from April, as part of a £60m in…
- Scottish childminder numbers halve in a decade
Scottish Labour accuses the Scottish government of failing families after the figures were revealed.
- Student paramedics learn to tackle home births via VR
Student paramedics are being taught how to deal with home births that go wrong by using virtual real…
- Don't take free period products away, say charities
The UK government hasn't said if it will keep giving out free tampons and pads in England past July.
- Secret classes to counter Russian brainwashing in occupied Ukraine
Forced to move from Melitopol, “Nataliia” now risks teaching hundreds of former students online.
- How a head teacher saved his pupils from a knifeman
Children hid under desks as Ciran Stapleton kept an armed intruder talking in the school corridor.
- Geoff Norcott: Should my son bother going to uni?
The comedian and former teacher says he has become sceptical about the value of university degrees.
BBC Newsround
Latest Newsround stories
- Changing Faces calls for the way villains look in movies to change
Charity Changing Faces calls for the way villains look in films to change.
- World Cup: Which Belgium player should England be worried about?
England play their final group match against Belgium, but which star player should England be worrie…
- Smoking: Should it be banned at the school gates?
A group of school children have had enough of adults smoking near school gates, so they decided to d…
- Can you guess which singer this is?
Here's a clue - she's pretty famous!
- Sir David Attenborough: 'I'm astonished' by Blue Planet plastic impact
The wildlife expert says he's been wowed by how much people are doing to tackle plastic in the ocean…