Getty/Maskot Almost 300 children with special educational needs and disabilities are being educated at home in Worcestershire Worcestershire has seen a “shocking” rise in the number of children with special…

Getty Images A charity says thousands struggle to care for their young relatives financially Sophie* did not hesitate when her two grandchildren needed urgently caring for after their mother suffered…

Four schools in one county have each signed a pledge with the aim of becoming smartphone-free. The headteachers of Kempsey, Welland and Hanley Swan Primaries, along with Hanley Castle High,…

Stuart Woodward/BBC Unionised staff who were refusing to take on what they claimed were unfair workloads were locked out of school by the academy trust Teachers locked out of a…

Sheila Foster-Hancock Parent and protest co-ordinator Laura Marfell-Williams said news of the proposed job cuts had come “out of the blue” Campaigners are due to protest outside a high school…

UCU UCU general secretary Jo Grady said a strike ballot was “on the cards” University staff have issued a strike threat after their employer announced nearly 100 job cuts. Coventry…

A teacher has been struck off for sending a naked and sexually explicit picture of himself to a group of young women. Nemiya Rookwood, 33, worked at Lincoln University Technical…

BBC Plamena Naydenova (left) and Kate Maxwell (right) both did the walk from West Molesey to Esher High School A mother said she was “scared” testing out the walking route…

BBC “Toby was so tremendously unhappy in school,” says his father, Daniel. “We were standing outside the classroom door for an hour every morning and he just didn’t want to…

A mother has described her son being moved to a care home 90 miles (145km) away as “devastating”. Louise Johnstone’s son Leo has a rare genetic condition and is being…