Daily roundup 5 January: Teaching, text messages, and child bereavement

A scheme to encourage experienced professionals to swap the boardroom for the classroom is to be backed by government funding to expand, schools minister Nick Gibb has announced. Now Teach - a charity set up to help people put skills acquired during a successful career to use in the classroom - has encouraged nearly 50 professionals to change their lives and retrain as a teacher in maths, science and modern foreign languages. The Department for Education has announced £350,000 of additional funding to help the charity expand its work.


A South Yorkshire man has admitted sending abusive text messages to Jayne Senior, the youth worker who blew the whistle on the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal. The Sheffield Star reports that Faisal Khan, 23, admitted to one count of sending a text message that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character, between 3 June and 25 June 2017. He also pleaded guilty to one count of harassment.


More than half of Scotland's 14 NHS boards employ no child bereavement counsellors - leaving women and couples who have lost a baby with little internal support. The Herald reports that eight health boards across the country have no full-time specialist to help those who have suffered from miscarriages, stillbirths or the death of a baby.


Around one in 10 young people could be "sapiosexual", research has found. iNews reports that sapiosexuality means that a person finds intelligence to be the most sexually attractive feature in a partner. The study has found that as many as eight per cent of young people find intelligence more attractive than humour, kindness and appearance.