The Grange Hotel in St Paul’s once again played host to a fantastic afternoon celebrating the very best of the UK’s education sector at the Education Business Awards 2016.

Children’s charity NSPCC says a loophole must be closed that allows private tutors to work without having had a criminal record check.

Sex and relationships education (SRE) is ‘inadequate or absent’ in many schools across the UK, according to a report from the Terrence Higgins Trust.

A third of referrals made under the government’s ‘Prevent’ counter terrorism strategy came from the education sector in 2015, according to figures released by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC).

The new schools would be largely secondaries in areas where there is pressure on places, says CoE spokeswoman