Potentially dangerous baby products – including self-feeding devices, pillows and sleeping bags – are still being sold on online marketplaces in the UK, according to Which?. The consumer group found 150 such products listed for sale by third parties on sites like Amazon, eBay and TikTok – despite having been …

On what should be a busy morning at Kaliluni Primary School in southern Kenya, only cows are in attendance, grazing between broken classroom doors that hang open to reveal rows of empty chairs. Three years ago, more than 200 children filled this rural school with noise and activity. Now there …

“Write an excuse for school and let them watch.” That was England coach Thomas Tuchel’s advice for parents on whether children should be allowed to stay up to support England in their early morning World Cup match against Mexico on Monday. The time difference means the round of 16 clash …

A new meme is spreading on Russian social media in response to nationwide fuel shortages. BBC News

She said she worked early mornings, evenings, weekends, and during school holidays when she was teaching – well beyond the hours she was paid for. “The demand within that time was huge, so realistically, you didn’t get your work done in that time,” she said. “If I came at 8:30am …

Ben said he was often given no work, trivial tasks such as a word search, or work which was too hard – but not appropriate material which could occupy him for the full day. This was despite Outwood Grange Academies Trust – which runs the school and 40 others in …

Almost all schools already have some sort of phone ban in place – but policies vary. Some have special lockers for phones, others have sealed pouches. At one school in Hampshire, “brick” or “dumb” phones are the only devices allowed, which can only be used to call or text and …

After many years of trying to get support for her son, Karen Quinn is currently going through the EHCP process. Adam is 11 years old and will be going to secondary school in September. For mum Karen, getting an EHCP in place before that transition is crucial. Adam is autistic …

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is to ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to examine the hidden costs parents may be charged when using government-funded childcare. Eligible working parents of children aged between nine months and four years old in England are entitled to 30 hours a week of government-funded …

When social workers asked a mother to submit a sample of hair for a drugs test, she thought it would prove she was clean and sober. But it turned out to be the start of a legal battle to regain custody of her daughter. Emily – not her real name …

A-level students in several countries, including the UK, have had their exam papers voided after it emerged they had been leaked online. Cambridge International Education, the exam board affected, said it had “moved quickly to put alternative measures in place for impacted students”. Some of those students will receive “assessed …

Thousands of people have told a parliamentary inquiry that they did not understand the terms and conditions on their student loans before they took them out. More than 52,000 people responded to a call for evidence by the Treasury Committee for its inquiry on the taxation of graduates – more …

Among those most worried are graduates who took out what are called Plan 2 loans between 2012 and 2023. Gemma, who now works for a tech company, is one of those graduates who contacted the BBC through Your Voice to share her frustration. Just after she graduated in 2016, her …

Falling pupil numbers in England’s schools should be used to cut class sizes, the largest education union has said. Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), told the BBC around a million pupils are being taught in classes of more than 31 children. Between 2023 and …

England’s exam regulator Ofqual says it is “closely monitoring” the marking of an A-level maths paper which students and parents say felt “unfair”. More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling for the paper to be reviewed, claiming it was significantly more challenging than in previous years. The founder …

A council has suggested pupils cross an active military firing range and climb over metal barriers of an A road to get to school, according to an MP. Tom Gordon, the MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, said North Yorkshire council were suggesting unsuitable walking routes in the rural constituency during …

Last month the UK’s leading baby-safety charity The Lullaby Trust and Morrison wrote to Streeting calling for “urgent action” to “ensure that no more babies’ lives are put at risk due to unregulated and bogus sleep advice”. Currently anyone can call themselves a maternity nurse, sleep expert or consultant, without …

It marks a turnaround after years of declining numbers starting from 2021, when enjoyment across all ages had been at 51.5%. By 2022 it had fallen to 47.8%, then 43.4% in 2023, before a sharp drop to 34.6% in 2024, before 32.7% in 2025. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who has …

Prof Ellie Lee, a family and parenting researcher at the University of Kent, said while the results of the UCL study sounded “plausible”, there was a “rush to try and find silver bullets and single causes, when most things that happen as part of child development are relatively multifactorial”. Lee, …

Secretary of State for Technology Liz Kendall was addressing the Commons following the announcement of a social media ban for under-16s. BBC News