Daily roundup: Bedroom tax, DfE spending, and school safeguarding

Disabled children that are unable to share a room because of their disability will not be forced to do so under the so-called bedroom tax benefits regulations, the High Court has ruled. However campaigners plan to appeal after their legal challenge to block the changes for all disabled people, which will see tenants in social housing lose part of their housing benefit entitlement if they have an unoccupied room, was rejected yesterday. Charity Contact a Family chief executive Srabani Sen said the decision was extremely disappointing.

The Labour Party has accused the Department for Education of overspending on consultants, marketing, ICT and recruitment by more than £114m. An inventory of the department's spending by Labour found the amount paid to consultants and contractors has risen by £350,000 since April, while payments to agency staff have grown four-fold. Recent approved "exemptions" to Treasury rules also included £8.2m spent on buying in ICT services.

Ofsted has admitted failings in its inspections at a Hampshire school for children with special educational needs which was criticised at a previous education tribunal for the way it dealt with a pupil's rape claim. An Ofsted review of its handling of safeguarding failings at Stanbridge Earls school found three inspections failed to get "underneath concerns". The school is due to close, but Ofsted has said changes are being implemented as a result of the case, the BBC reports.