?A new taskforce to help more people with learning disabilities to access apprenticeships has been announced by the government. It comes as part of the government’s goal to create three million apprenticeships by 2020. It has been created by the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and the Department for Education.
Refugee children from migrant camps on the European mainland will not be accepted in Britain for up to another seven months. The Telegraph reports that Number 10 said on Monday that the government’s “expectation” was that children from the camps would only be allowed to come to the UK by the end of the year.?
??Plans to close eight children’s centres across Northamptonshire are almost certain to go ahead despite protests and petitions from parents. The Northampton Chronicle & Echo reports that Northamptonshire County Council is set to rubberstamp plans to close eight centres and move a further 13 to the nearest library at a cabinet meeting being held this month.?
A “rogue marker” attempted to leak a test being taken by 10- and 11-year-olds in England, a Department for Education source has said. The BBC reports the answers appeared for four hours on a password-protected website for test markers and the source blamed an “active campaign” by those opposed to government reforms to undermine the tests.?
A baby died after a dispute between medical staff over how quickly to perform a caesarean section, an inquest has heard. Thea Rose Morgan was only able to survive for a few days after being starved of oxygen during an emergency C-section at Wythenshawe Hospital. The Manchester Evening News reports that it is still unclear if anything could have been done to save her after a doctor and two midwives gave differing versions of events during the first day of an inquest into her death.?
The number of five-year-olds with tooth decay has fallen to its lowest level in almost a decade, data from Public Health England has shown. The BBC reports that nearly a third of five-year-olds in England suffered tooth decay in 2008, but in the past seven years this has dropped by a quarter.?
