Daily roundup 30 June: Tuition fees, social mobility and child poverty

Non-white young people and those from the poorest backgrounds will be put off going to university if the government follows through with plans to further raise tuition fees, a report has warned. The Independent reports that the National Education Opportunities Network and the University and College Union also said that non-whites and those who receive free school meals are also more likely to choose low-cost university options if tuition fees rise.


Most people think there is less social mobility than there was a decade ago, a poll has found. The BBC reports the NatCen British Social Attitudes Report found 77 per cent of 4,328 people thought that the class divide is currently either "fairly wide" or "very wide".?


More than half of Birmingham's most disadvantaged families fear their children will have a worse life than their own, a report by the Birmingham Child Poverty Commission has revealed. The Birmingham Mail reports that more than 100,000 children are living in poverty in the city, which has the UK's second highest rate of child poverty in the UK behind Manchester.


Too many children have been unnecessarily held in custody by South Wales Police, a report into the force's child protection work has found. Wales Online reports that between February and December 2015, South Wales Police detained 71 children under the age of 18 in custody after they had been charged.


Children receiving cardiac treatment at Bristol Children's Hospital were repeatedly given poor care, according to a review examining the deaths of at least seven children at the hospital. The BBC reports that the probe found there was poor communication with families. It has recommended that NHS England commissions a review of paediatric intensive care services across England.