Decision-making in age assessments of asylum-seeking children is inconsistent and results in children mistakenly being judged to be adults, a report by the Children’s Commissioner has found. It argued that consensual approach to age determination should be adopted involving a range of different professionals, since there is no single reliable medical measure of maturity.
The spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO), has refused to sign off last year's Department for Education (DfE) accounts, because it overspent by £63m, the BBC reports. The watchdog also “qualified” the 2011/12 accounts of the Young People's Learning Agency because of 14 cases at nine academies where severance payments were made outside employees' contracts without prior approval.
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