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Daily roundup: Child abuse, school exams and early education

Google software will help spot abuse images; Eton head says exam system out of date; and new Stonewall chief calls for nurseries to teach relationship diversity, all in the news today.

Google has developed new specialised software which scours millions of email accounts for images of child abuse. The Telegraph reports that state-of-the-art software means that paedophiles around the world will no longer be able to store or send indecent images of children via email without becoming known to the authorities.

Tony Little, headmaster at exclusive public school Eton, has told the Radio Times that the education system puts too much focus on what grades pupils achieve at the expense of an all-round education. He describes the current exam system as obliging students "to sit alone at their desks in preparation for a world in which, for most of the time, they will need to work collaboratively", the BBC reports.

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