People will be able to request personal information gathered in childhood and held online to be deleted as part of an overhaul of UK data protection laws. The proposals, which include bigger fines for firms that flout the laws, have been drawn up by digital minister Matt Hancock, the BBC reports.
A senior Metropolitan Police officer says criticism of the government's Prevent anti-radicalisation programme is based on "ignorance". The programme, which works with young people at risk of joining extremist groups, has been branded "toxic" by some organisations. But Commander Dean Haydon told the BBC's Asian Network that critics "don't understand properly how Prevent works".
Children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield says parents must intervene to stop their children overusing social media and consuming time online "like junk food". In an interview with the Observer, Longfield said parents should be proactive in stopping their children from bingeing on the internet in the summer holidays.
A group of Labour MPs has written to Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke, urging him to delay the expansion of the new Universal Credit benefit system to stop their constituents suffering severe hardship over Christmas. In a letter to the Guardian, the group called on the government to delay rollout until the new year, because people would not be able to afford delays to their first benefit payments over the festive period.
The regional adoption agency for five local authorities in the North West - Cheshire West and Cheshire, Halton and WWiSH which incorporates St Helens, Warrington and Wigan - is to launch on 1 September. Together for Adoption will be the third regional agency to be established, following those covering the Manchester and Bournemouth areas in July.
The amount of capital funding each local authority in England is to receive to improve services for children with special education needs and disabilities has been announced by the Department for Education.
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