Daily roundup 28 November: Pupil behaviour, mental health, and council cuts

A teacher who banned the term “banter” from the classroom has left his job at Lynn Grove High School in Gorleston, Norfolk. The BBC reports that Mike Stuchbery left the school by mutual consent after paying a “hefty cost” for speaking up in his blog on classroom bullying.


A jury has found that multiple failures led to an 18-year-old woman taking her own life after she was moved from adolescent to adult mental health care without proper transition arrangements. Campaign group Inquest said the death of Rebecca Louise Overy who had been in a secure adolescent psychiatric unit since the age of 13 was a "shocking reminder that there needs to be an urgent improvement in the care of children and young people by mental health and social services".


Six million pounds earmarked to help children in care in Wolverhampton is in line to be cut from the council's budget. The Express and Star reports that the authority is proposing £5m of cuts from April followed by a further £1million in 2016/17.


Adoption UK is launching an appeal to raise £10,000 to provide schools with more information on the needs of adopted children after it found that half failed to hit educational targets at junior schools last year. The Reaching Their Full Potential appeal will be launched on 2 December.


A Busy Bees nursery in Edinburgh has been temporarily closed following the death of a 13-month-old girl in its care. The Daily Mail reports that the child suffered a cardiac arrest at Careshare’s Port Hamilton nursery yesterday morning. She was rushed to hospital but doctors were unable to resuscitate her.


A mother has warned that changes to Northamptonshire’s children’s centres have left families feeling neglected. The Northampton Chronicle reports that Joanne Hornett thinks the move towards targeted provision creates issues for families with “non-critical problems".