Daily roundup: Social segregation in schools, money worries and supermarkets on youth unemployment

Schools in the UK are some of the most socially segregated in the developed world, a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found. The report warns that disadvantaged children, such as the children of immigrants and those with poorly educated parents, are too often concentrated together. The report also found that despite having one of the highest enrolment rates in early education among four-year-olds, annual expenditure per pre-school pupil in the UK is less than the OECD average.

Money is a worry for a significant proportion of children, according to a study by the National Children’s Bureau (NCB). Research published by the organisation today found that 43 per cent of seven- to 16-year-olds worry about money, while nearly one in eight (12 per cent) has owed someone else money that they could not afford to repay. The NCB has launched a toolkit developed by young people to help children campaign for high quality, personal finance education to be taught in their school.

The Prime Minister David Cameron is to meet leaders of the UK's largest supermarkets to discuss youth unemployment. The Telegraph reports that the meeting at Number 10 will see Cameron discuss the issue with the chief executives of Asda, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury and Waitrose, alongside the new Environment Secretary Owen Paterson. After meeting the industry chiefs, Cameron and Patterson will meet a group of young workers employed in the retail sector.

Six youth centres in South Gloucestershire will remain under council control after proposals to allow external providers to run the area's 13 youth centres were dropped. Under plans agreed last night, universal youth services will be provided from centres in six neighbourhoods, with the running of the remaining seven youth centres transferred to local organisations. The BBC reports that Conservative councillors had proposed allowing outside firms to run the centres, but Labour and the Liberal Democrats wanted to retain control of serives in deprived areas. No political party has a majority on the council.

Extra funding from government is required to address an “extraordinary” shortage of school places in Barking and Dagenham, it has been claimed. Deputy leader of the council Rocky Gill has written to Chancellor George Osborne calling for extra funding. The council says it requires £50m a year for the next 10 years to meet its statutory duty on providing places. Gill said: “People are moving to Barking and Dagenham, not just because of affordable accommodation but because parents see the rapid progress our schools are making and want their children to enjoy the benefits of a borough education.”

Teachers will be left vulnerable to discrimination and harassment as a result of a government decision to scrap equalities guidance for schools and colleges, the NASUWT has claimed. Concerns were set out in a motion moved by the union at the TUC Congress in Brighton. Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said the decision was a "failure of the coalition government to value and protect working people". Meanwhile, the Telegraph reports that teaching union members across England and Wales plan to refuse to complete all non-teaching duties under a dispute over pay, pensions and workload.