Daily roundup 5 December: Teacher recruitment, demanding parents, and Tampon Tax

A scheme to recruit good teachers to work in deprived areas has been dropped, the government has confirmed. The BBC reports that the National Teaching Service was announced by former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan in 2015. However, a Department for Education spokesman said that following a pilot "we can confirm that we will not be progressing". ?


Parents in the north of England should learn from their pushier southern counterparts to help their children get the best grades, the children's commissioner for England has said. The East Lothian Courier reports Anne Longfield said demanding parents in London and the South East have helped spur their children on.


A new round of the Tampon Tax Fund has been launched by youth minister Rob Wilson. Proposals are being welcomed from organisations that work to improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls more generally. The fund closes for applications on 27 January 2017.?


Governments have failed for more than a decade to ensure that social integration in the UK has kept up with the "unprecedented pace and scale of immigration", and have allowed some communities to become increasingly divided, a review has found. The Guardian reports that the government's integration tsar Dame Louise Casey has branded ministerial attempts to boost integration of ethnic minorities as amounting to little more than "saris, samosas and steel drums for the already well-intentioned".?


A new law has come into force in Scotland, which makes it illegal to smoke in a car with anyone under the age of 18. The BBC reports that legislation was passed at Holyrood in 2015 and people caught breaking the new law could face a fine of up to £1,000.?


The number of potential victims to have come forward in football's child sex abuse scandal is now approaching 450, one of Britain's top police officers has said. The Express reports that Chief Constable Simon Bailey spoke as it emerged 55 clubs were named in allegations.?