His jaunt to Washington didn’t go exactly as planned...

Six-week-old Yousef's lifeless body lay limp on a hospital table in Gaza City, his skin stretched over protruding ribs and a bandage where a drip had been inserted into his tiny arm. Doctors said the cause of death was starvation.

Thomas White’s family say his spending years in prison on IPP sentence without release date was ‘psychiatric abuse’ A prisoner driven to psychosis after being jailed for more than a decade under an indeterminate sentence has finally been moved to a hospital for a treatment after a six-year battle by his family and supporters. Thomas White was sentenced to a minimum of two years in custody under the imprisonment for public protection (IPP) scheme in 2012 for stealing a mobile phone, but remains in prison over a decade later. Continue reading...

Up to 20,000 more young children, including those with SEND, will have their needs identified and supported earlier, breaking down barriers to opportunity.

New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report Sure Start children’s centres provided £2 of savings for every £1 in costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), prompting calls for the government to look at such services as potentially paying for themselves. The centres, championed by the last Labour government, created £2.8bn in savings and revenues at the scheme’s peak in England, according to the IFS study. Continue reading...

Survey finds social media main cause of poor behaviour, with pupils mimicking Donald Trump and Andrew Tate A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned. A survey by the NASUWT union found most teachers identified social media as “the number one cause” of pupil misbehaviour, with female staff bearing the brunt. Teachers also raised concerns about parents who refuse to accept school rules or take responsibility for their children’s behaviour. Continue reading...

What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it

Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed concern that ‘callous, manipulative and toxic influencers’ are taking the place of traditional father figures and contributing to mental health issues among young me...

Following the biggest archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.