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• Parents in the US: are you happy with your child’s school lunch?

  03-04-2024 20:23
  
  We’d like to know how you feel about your child’s school lunch – and how those lunches vary across the countryAcross the US, parents, kids, educators and public health advocates are pushing to change the multibillion-dollar school meals industry.At the same time, public schools have to contend with government requirements for nutrition, decreases in funding, religious and dietary restrictions and parent and student opinion. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on free childcare: a subsidy for demand with little thought for supply | Editorial

  03-04-2024 20:08
  
  The government’s extension of free nursery hours reflects a late recognition of problems the Tories’ are ill-equipped to addressBritain’s welfare state was conceived to care for citizens from cradle to grave, although changing governments have prioritised different parts of that demographic range. The Conservatives have tended to be most attentive to the older end of the electorate. Pensioners reliably vote Tory; infants have no vote at all. But their parents do, which is why R
  
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• Teachers could strike in September, union says

  03-04-2024 19:18 via bbc.com
  
  National Education Union members are expected to vote on whether to hold a formal strike ballot.
  
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• Teachers in England and Wales could strike again in September, says NEU chief

  03-04-2024 18:30
  
  Daniel Kebede warns of ‘growing frustration’ within profession as UK heads towards a general electionTeachers in England and Wales could strike again as early as September, according to the head of the UK’s largest education union, who warned of “growing frustration” within the profession as the country heads towards a general election.Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union, said further strikes were still on the table after nearly 150,
  
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• Labour on course to win more than 400 seats and majority of 154, suggests poll – as it happened

  03-04-2024 18:22
  
  YouGov polling suggests Conservative party could face worse result at general election than it suffered in 1997 under John MajorDelegates at the National Education Union’s annual conference in Bournemouth have voted for a motion saying Ofsted should be abolished. Commenting on the result, Daniel Kebede, the union’s general secretary, said:NEU members have made their feelings very clear: Ofsted causes more harm than good and we need urgent and fundamental reform. The profession can be
  
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• Handling other information rights requests

  03-04-2024 15:18 via gov.uk
  
  How to manage other information rights requests, including changing, deleting or restricting the processing of personal information.
  
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• Dealing with subject access requests (SARs)

  03-04-2024 15:18 via gov.uk
  
  A subject access request (SAR) is a type of information rights request. A SAR lets people access a copy of the personal data a school holds about them or someone they have parental responsibility for.
  
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• Labour commits to Tory childcare expansion plan

  03-04-2024 15:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From this week, working parents with two-year-olds will be eligible for 15 hours of free childcare.
  
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• We have seen the failure of Tory levelling up, so in Manchester we have radical plans to help ourselves | Andy Burnham

  03-04-2024 10:18
  
  At this defining moment for English devolution, my new manifesto has clarity, ambition and three big ideas
  Andy Burnham is mayor of Greater ManchesterThis morning I launched my campaign for a third term as mayor of Greater Manchester with a manifesto that is by far the most radical yet.For those who have hitherto been sceptical of English devolution, hopefully our recent successful reregulation of buses will have convinced the doubters.Andy Burnham is mayor of Greater Manchester. He served as th
  
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• Hunger, homelessness and gang grooming: just a normal week at one London academy

  03-04-2024 08:00
  
  The Guardian spent time at Oasis Academy Hadley, where more than half of pupils are in poverty but ambitions are high“It’s the biggest story, mark my words. I think it’s really worrying. There are going to be dead children.” Zoë Thompson is not a drama queen. She studied physics at King’s College London, and thought she would work for Nasa. In fact, she went into teaching and has been principal of a large academy in a tough corner of north-east London for six y
  
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• Women behind the lens: ‘Despite the uncertainties of war, they were full of hope’

  03-04-2024 07:00
  
  An image of South Sudanese graduates in 2018 forms part of a series about the lives, dreams and resilience of young AfricansIn September 2018, on a very hot day in Juba, South Sudan, a moment of resilience and hope presented itself. I was walking through the streets of the city and stumbled upon a group of students in their graduation gowns, marching in unison towards a gathering point. Parents and passersby were cheering them on. Among them was a cluster of radiant young women, whose smiles see
  
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