Schools should be open for up to 10 hours-a-day in order to “work better with modern life", education minister Elizabeth Truss has said. The Evening Standard reports that Truss suggests schools could offer care outside formal lessons for children as young as two, as well as catch-up classes and extra-curricular activities for older children.
Members of the public could be allowed in to family courts to watch cases for the first time, the country’s leading family judge has said. The Daily Mail reports that Sir James Munby wants to talk to lawyers, judges and social work chiefs about “the possible hearing in public of certain types of family case”. Views on the idea will be gathered as part of a paper on ending secrecy in the family courts to be published shortly by Munby.
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