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New research finds a third of truants miss school because of bullies
Extra cash to ‘help beat bullying’

The government has pledged nearly half a million pounds to expand a pupil mentoring scheme as new research finds up to 20,000 children skip school every day to avoid bullies. Today marks the start anti-bullying week, and education secretary Alan Johnson said the £480,000 funding would allow 60,000 children to report bullying to older pupils,… Read more »

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Tory policy group moots scrapping school catchment areas
Scrapping catchment areas ‘would help poor’

Catchment areas should be scrapped to give poorer children a chance to go to better schools, a Conservative policy group has proposed. It warned that by only allowing pupils to attend local schools, problems in poor areas were made worse and the ‘cycle of deprivation’ was repeated across generations. “If you’re living on a rather… Read more »