Arts Council England has launched a new scheme that looks to introduce professional writers to schools to improve the quality of creative writing lessons.

The government has announced funding for rugby coaches from premiership clubs to be drafted into schools to instil character and resilience in disaffected children.

The english exams regulator Ofqual has told exam boards to re-write new GCSE maths exams after analysing the results of 4,000 sample papers.

Children’s charity Barnardo’s is calling on the government to act now to stop the decrease in funding of children’s centres, following new calculations that reveal a dramatic budget decrease of over 35 per cent since 2010.

In a speech to health leaders in central London, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that tackling child hood obesity would be a priority for the NHS.