Daily roundup 2 June: Immigrant children, nursery investigation, and Jack Wills advert

Schools with a large number of children originally from the European Union do better in exam results than those without, research has suggested. The Independent reports a study by School Dash found schools with pupils who speak English as an additional language do better academically.


Salford Council has launched an investigation after claims a one-year-old girl was “strangled” by a blind cord at her nursery. ITV News reports Kelly Connolly took her daughter Willow Green to A&E after she was sent home from Holyrood Nursery with a deep red mark around her neck. The nursery said it was also carrying out its own inquiry.?


An advert for clothing chain Jack Wills has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for its use of “sexualised images and text”. The Express reports the advertisement, which featured images of young men and women in their underwear drinking, dancing and lying on a bed, was deemed inappropriate for young people.


A woman who lived near the family of a murdered toddler has told how she contacted social services after getting a “gut wrenching” feeling something was wrong with the boy. On Tuesday, Rachel Fee and her partner Nyomi were found guilty of murdering Rachel’s two-year-old son Liam in Fife. The BBC reports that Patricia Smith said she felt the call she made to social services had served little purpose.?


Hundreds of disadvantaged children in London are to get their own “mini-Olympics” this summer. The London Evening Standard reports around 1,000 children are being invited to a one-day festival of alternative sports at the Copper Box arena at the Olympic Park in Stratford.?


The Manchester Evening News has launched a campaign to support the thousands of young people who want to improve their communities. The campaign, launched during National Volunteers’ Week, will run until November with the aim of making Manchester a better place to live.?


An “urgent inquiry” is needed into separated children who have gone missing from care, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) has said. The BBC reports that a BBC Spotlight programme revealed eight children have gone missing in Northern Ireland since 2005 and remain missing. Mark H Durkan, health spokesman for the SDLP, said he would be raising the issue with the Northern Ireland Assembly’s health committee.