Daily roundup: Self harm, one-child families and migraines

School leaders who allowed a pupil to cut herself with razor blades at school are facing investigation by the Teaching Agency, the Telegraph reports. The “controlled self harm” policy for the teenage girl required teachers to let her access sterilised razor blades and to escort her to a bathroom where she could cut herself. Staff at Unsted Park School in Godalming, Surrey, which offers specialist care to children with Asperger's syndrome and higher-functioning autism, were asked to wait outside the bathroom, and dress and clean her wounds. The policy ended after five days following complaints from staff to the local authority.

The challenge of combining work and childcare is leading to families having fewer children, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The Daily Mail reports that the ONS’s latest Labour Force Survey shows that almost half of families in the UK have one child. The number of one-child families has increased by almost 700,000 in 15 years. The ONS said that larger families were under pressure because of “the greater challenge of combining work with childcare with three or more children compared with one or two”.