The Fostering Network has launched a campaign urging government to change the law so that all fostered young people can stay with their carers after they turn 18, if both parties agree. The Network has been working with Paul Goggins MP to table an amendment to the Children and Families Bill that would extend local authority support for fostered children until they reach 21. In support of the campaign, 38 MPs have recorded video messages highlighting their own experiences of leaving home and addressing the issue of inadequate support for care leavers.
GCSEs will be replaced by a new qualification called “I levels” from September 2015, which will see the current A* to G grades scrapped in favour of numerical marks. Under plans put forward by Ofqual, the exams regulator, the highest grade will be an 8 and the lowest will be a 1. The aim of the I level - or Intermediate level - exams is to provide harder content for the pupils sitting them and greater differentiation among the highest-performing teenagers, The Times reports.
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