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Award-winning journalist at @bbcnews. Former primary teacher with ADHD 🧠. @JSchofieldTrust Fellow 2025 and @NCTJ_news ambassador.

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Free school meal pupils falling further behind their peers, report warns

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By Hayley Clarke Verified
| MSN Malaysia Verified
The gap between how well pupils from better-off backgrounds perform at school compared with their classmates from lower-income households has widened, according to a new report. Despite some improvements in the years since Covid, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) said the disadvantage gap had widened again in England and was still bigger "at every phase" of school than it was before the pandemic. The difference was "particularly stark" in early education, the report said.
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Phone contract comparisons 'amounted to mis-selling' student loans, MPs say

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By Hayley Clarke Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Comparing student loan repayments to phone contracts or cinema tickets "amounted to mis-selling" by government, a group of MPs has said. In a new report, the Treasury Committee also said students were not told clearly enough loan terms could change retrospectively, and called for a U-turn on the decision to freeze the income threshold at which some graduates start repaying their loans.
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A smartphone ban in English schools is coming into force. What's changing?

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By Hayley Clarke Verified
| Yahoo Verified
A ban on smartphones in schools in England comes into force on Monday, 29 June, making individual schools and trusts legally responsible for being phone-free throughout the day. It is separate from the recently announced ban on social media for under-16s, and the government said the move would give "legal force to what schools are already doing in practice". But what is changing? And what does it mean for pupils, parents and teachers? Can I still take my phone to school?
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