Daily roundup 11 April: Terror trial, armed police, and body image

A teenager is set to become the first person to stand trial at a youth court as a terror suspect. Court News UK reports that the 16-year-old will stand trial in July for allegedly spreading Al Qaeda propaganda online. The young person allegedly downloaded and shared the terror group's English-language magazine Inspire between 1 April 2016 and 20 February.


Armed police raided a home in Birmingham before leading out young suspects - one allegedly aged just 12 - at gunpoint. The Mirror reports that officers with guns made the children line up in the road before forcing them to lie down, where they were handcuffed. No one was arrested in connection with the incident.


Children start to worry about their appearance at the age of 12, a study has found. The Sun reports that a poll found that almost 90 per cent admit to worrying about their appearance for an hour and 34 minutes each day. One in five young people even admitted they have pretended to be sick to get out of going to school or work due to their lack of confidence about their appearance.


Children in Buckinghamshire have been failed by the county council and other agencies when it comes to being kept safe from sexual abuse, a safeguarding report has found. The Bucks Herald reports that Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board published a serious case review after a series of failures by Buckinghamshire County Council to keep children in their care safe from abuse.


The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) conference in Liverpool has voted to lobby against "excessive pay" for academy chief executives. The BBC reports that a delegate from Leicestershire told the conference that some academy bosses "have decided to treat education as a gravy train and are milking schools".