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BBC News - Education and Family
News and features from BBC News - Education and Family
- Bridgend: Barricade set up to stop school run parking 'mayhem'
Residents of a street near a school in Bridgend take the unusual step of setting up a barricade.
- NI universities face 10-day strike
Some staff are set to walk out in February and March over pay, working conditions and pensions.
- Sex education in schools 'inadequate'
Koulla Yiasouma says Relationship and Sex Education needs a set curriculum like other subjects.
- Epping Forrest nursery had cot next to live sockets, Ofsted finds
Scribbles Day Nursery says the baby room was shut for cleaning at the time of the inspection.
- One in eight pupils out of school as Covid worsens
The official figures also show a quarter of schools with teachers and leaders' absence rates above 1…
- Forced adoption: 'My baby was taken'
Mothers like Lisa Rolland, who felt pressured to give up her baby, are being asked to tell their sto…
- Norwich boy, 4, died after neck got trapped in stair gates
The two stair gates were placed one above the other, an inquest hears.
- Covid in Wales: Masks to be required in schools until half term
Covid rules in schools to be set locally from end of February under new plans.
- Liu Xuezhou: Outrage over death of 'twice abandoned' China teen
The 17-year-old, who was sold as a child, had launched a campaign to look for his birth parents.
- Mums helped to get back into work after career breaks
Professional support is offered to mums who have struggled to find jobs after having children.
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…