A report by WATCh calls for a new framework to cater specifically for babies and toddlers under three when the need for emotional stability is paramount. This would differentiate it from the existing purer learning focus they agree is necessary for three- to five-year-olds.

The government has released a series of cost-saving ‘baseline’ designs for new primary and secondary schools, which it believes will enable schools to be built 30% cheaper than they were under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

An alliance of organisations and individuals is taking legal action against the exam regulator Ofqual to try to resolve the continuing dispute over the grading of the June English GCSE exam.

The Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation In Gangs and Groups has produced an interim report containing strong criticisms of the way in which agencies are identifying and dealing with cases of child exploitation.