Voting to leave the European Union could have a devastating impact on young people's life chances, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is set to warn. The BBC reports that Morgan will today urge parents and grandparents to think how their vote will impact on the next generation, while also calling on young people to make sure they vote in June’s referendum.
??Teachers are to call on the government to withdraw anti-terror rules aimed at tackling radicalisation in classrooms. The Daily Mail reports that the National Union of Teachers said the government's Prevent strategy has led to innocent pupils being reported to police unnecessarily.?
Children as young as 10 were among hundreds of young people arrested for suspected crimes involving firearms, air weapons or imitation guns between 2013 and 2016. The BBC reports that more than 1,500 children were arrested in the three-year period with the number of arrests rising by 20 per cent last year.
Children taken from their parents should be placed with “culturally appropriate” carers, a high court judge has said. The Portsmouth News reports that Mr Justice Baker said social workers are in danger of not appreciating the importance of children’s culture and religion. He made the comments during a ruling on the futures of seven children from a Muslim family in Portsmouth.
Parents are being charged up to £1.80 a day by state schools to let their children eat their own packed lunches at schools. The Telegraph reports the charges are being justified because schools claim they need to pay for supervision and cleaning costs.
More children die on the roads in the summer than in winter, it has been claimed. The Guardian reports that research by the RAC Foundation found that, based on a five-year average between 2010 and 2014, the highest number of child road casualties in Britain were recorded in July.
