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Cutting the benefits of unemployed lone parents who do not attend the mandatory Work-Focused Interviews has failed to alter their attitude to work. Government-commissioned research said in some cases parents failed to even notice their benefits had been cut.

The government has rejected calls for the creation of specialist prisons for female inmates who are mothers or pregnant in its response to a children's commissioner report. The government said the units were not "feasible or desirable".

Key Stage 2 maths, science and literacy teaching in England is far narrower than in places with some of the world's best primary school results, such as Hong Kong and Latvia. Physics was one topics where lessons were less demanding than in other countries, the National Foundation for Educational Research study found.

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