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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The over-subscription of nursery places is a headache for education secretary Bridget Phillipson – and shows the importance of making the policy succeed

Exclusive: Education secretary Bridget Phillipson insists she is unafraid of scheme’s soaraway popularity, describing it as a ‘good problem to have’

For children in England with special educational needs and disabilities, an education and health care plan (EHCP) is a central pillar of support. The government is due to set out its educational strategy for children with special educational needs and disabilities in the autumn, though, and has not ruled out…

The new school guidance also stressed the need to avoid 'stigmatising boys for being boys'

Government says new guidance will challenge ‘manosphere’ myths as DfE reports epidemic-scale misogyny

It comes amid the spread of “manosphere” content from influencers like Andrew Tate

The guidance comes as the Department for Education warned that misogynistic attitudes had reached ‘epidemic scale’ among young people.

The Transport Secretary was asked about comments criticising her female Cabinet colleagues over recent months, amid rumours of a reshuffle at the top

A mainstream London school with a high number of children with EHCPs has effectively set up a mini special school within its walls

More than half (59%) of households affected by the policy are in work, the data showed.

Exclusive: Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has told The Independent that she wants to end the practice of putting vulnerable children in care into illegal squalid homes