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• Labour’s must help disadvantaged children become ‘school ready’ before it’s too late | Editorial

  07-12-2024 20:00
  With child poverty forecast to rise by 400,000, Keir Starmer’s pledge to improve the life chances of early learners is a matter of the utmost urgencyA third of children starting school in England aged five are not “school ready”. For children from disadvantaged backgrounds, that figure is much higher – just under half of children eligible for free school meals enter the classroom not having met the level of development expected for their age. This gap could not be more im
  
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• Top London academies face mass claims of emotional harm as Whitehall acts on crisis

  07-12-2024 17:39
  
  Government says allegations ‘deeply distressing’ as dossier of allegations grows in wake of Observer investigation into Mossbourne schoolsThe government has expressed alarm at “deeply distressing” allegations of emotional harm at one of the country’s leading academy trusts after an Observer investigation.Almost 140 parents, students and teachers have now spoken out about “systemic” and “lasting” emotional harm to children stretching back two
  
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• Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial

  07-12-2024 15:20
  
  A 1561 charter granted powers to imprison young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after darkIn 1561, a little-known charter granted the University of Cambridge the power to arrest and imprison any woman “suspected of evil”. For nearly 350 years, the ­university used this law to ­incarcerate young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark in Cambridge.The women were considered prostitutes and could be forcibly taken to the university&
  
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