Daily roundup 14 March: The Budget, radicalisation fears, and sex education

Chancellor George Osborne has warned of the need to make additional cuts to government spending in this week's Budget. The Guardian reports that weaker growth and a deterioration in the public finances will force the Treasury to make an additional £4bn of savings by the end of the current parliament.


Staff at a nursery in Luton threatened to refer a four-year-old boy to the government's de-radicalisation "Channel" programme after he drew pictures they thought referred to a "cooker-bomb". The Guardian reports that the boy drew a picture of his father cutting up a cucumber.


??Former Conservative culture minister Maria Miller has called on government to introduce mandatory sex education in schools. The Telegraph reports that Miller, who chairs the women and equalities select committee, said the move would help address the “appalling” effect that sexting has on young girls and boys. “I have changed my position on it,” she said.


A total of 70 sex attacks were committed by children under the age of 10 last year. The Daily Mail reports that a five-year-old boy was investigated for rape and a two-year-old was accused of grievous bodily harm, according to a Freedom of Information request to 32 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.


An estimated 44,000 secondary school pupils have been caught sending explicit messages and sexual imagery since 2010, according to research by The Times newspaper. It reports that more than one in 10 of the cases involved a "non-school adult" and more than a third of cases involved children aged 12 and 13.


Young people in the South East of England are more informed about personal finance issues than their northern peers, a study has found. Charity MyBnk measured young people's skills and found almost 10 per cent difference between the two parts of the country in terms of budgeting, banking, pensions, tax and public finance knowledge.


The former youth police and crime commissioner of Kent has revealed stories published about her private life forced her to seek counselling. The BBC reports 21-year-old Kerry Boyd took up the role in April 2014 after Kent’s first youth commissioner resigned but two months later she was being investigated amid reports of a relationship with a married man.


Full-time childcare for two pre-school-aged children costs £2 a week more than the average woman’s salary, it has been claimed. The Mirror reports the weekly cost of a full-time childminder for a child under two and sending one aged three to four to nursery costs an average of £368, while women's average earnings stand at £366.?