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Daily roundup: Girlguiding uniform, extremism in schools, and youth ballot

Girlguiding launches new uniform; legal challenge considered over new regulations to prevent extremism in schools, and UK Youth Parliament launches ballot to decide annual debate topics, all in the news today.

A new Girlguiding uniform providing a range of tops, as well as a dress and skirt has been launched as part of the organisation’s efforts to improve girls’ body confidence. The new uniform, designed by fashion students at Arts University Bournemouth, is the first major Guide uniform redesign since 2000.

Teachers could be prevented from teaching traditional Christian values in independent schools because of new rules designed to combat Islamic extremism, it has been claimed. The Telegraph reports that the Christian Institute is considering a legal challenge to proposed new regulations issued following the so-called Trojan Horse scandal, claiming they could be used to clamp down on schools teaching anything deemed politically incorrect on issues such as marriage.

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