DfE pledges to create up to 14,000 school places in up to 75 new free schools, including new special schools, alternative provision and 'elite' sixth forms
Hard-up families face a 'postcode lottery' in free school meals support during holidays as councils scrap voucher schemes started during the Covid pandemic
Almost a third of schools' buildings include materials either at the end of their shelf life or that pose a 'serious risk of imminent failure', figures reveal
The country’s largest exam board has been criticised for creating an 'avoidable problem' with a geography GCSE question 'inaccessible' to colour-blind pupils