Permanent school exclusions in Northamptonshire have risen by almost a third with children as young as five being told to leave their primary school for good.
A modest teenager who pulled a stricken primary school pupil from a freezing lake earlier this year has been nominated as an ‘unsung hero’ in our education awards.
The man charged with overseeing the safeguarding of children in the Northamptonshire says he has ‘strong concerns’ about the rapid rise in the number of county children being home-schooled.
The head of an award-winning Corby school currently named as the TES’ School of the Year says a combination of government and local funding cuts is putting its services ‘under threat’.
Northamptonshire nurseries are having to increase hourly rates and ask for voluntary contributions from parents in a bid to keep their businesses open after their funding was cut.
Northamptonshire nurseries will go under and staff will lose their jobs, early years providers have warned, as a £1.8m budget reduction will hit the sector from next week.
