A study published by the Office for National Statistics has found that 30 per cent of primary school children with long-term effects of the coronavirus had at least one probable mental illness, compared with 7.7 per cent of those without long COVID. By Kat Lay, The Times.

Education charity Teach First has warned that a “population bulge” of more than 729,000 children born in 2010-11 has resulted in today’s pupils facing the toughest ever competition to secure secondary school places this year. By India McTaggart, The Times.

The LGBT+ young people's charity Just Like Us is urging headteachers to be more "aware" of children who are coming out as transgender at their school, after a survey revealed that headteachers were the least likely to know when students came out as transgender. By Callum Mason, Tes.

Writing in The Telegraph, columnist Celia Walden raises her concerns about the Government’s plan to reform the history curriculum to make it more “diverse and global”.

According to a study conducted by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education in January of this year, 38 per cent of primary school teachers were having to buy books for classrooms out of their own pockets owing to limited budgets. Tes.

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