Kensington and Chelsea’s youth service has officially launched as an independent staff-led mutual. The new organisation - called Epic CIC - is understood to be the first youth service department in the country to be freed from local authority control. Its 152 staff now own shares in the company and have a say in its management.
The education of as many as 500,000 children in the UK is suffering because they have no home internet, it has been claimed. The BBC reports that campaign group Mind the Gap says schools now expect children to use the web at home for homework, revision and independent study.
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