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Low-quality nursery food warning
Nursery food is poor and could be subjected to new nutritional guidelines, a government-commissioned report says.
Expats wait for pensions verdict
More than half a million UK pensioners living overseas will find if they have won an appeal against freezing of their pensions.
Care order fees to be abolished
Fees for bringing care and supervision cases to court are to be abolished, the Justice Secretary announces.
Balls supports 'pupil premiums'
Labour's Ed Balls stokes up the battle over school funding - putting forward his own plans for "pupil premiums" for poorer pupils.
Balls criticises Bulger comments
Children's Secretary Ed Balls criticises children's commissioner for "ill advised" comments about James Bulger's killers.
Universities heads' 'wages soar'
The pay of university heads has soared with some now earning more than the prime minister, a report says.
Schools 'force' young mothers out
Pregnant teenagers are being forced out of education due to a "lack of support", a children's charity claims.
Black fathers urged over children
Black fathers need to become more involved with their children to help tackle their social problems, an MP will say.
Five things
Lib Dem David Laws on what he has learned in life
Her Majesty invented the telephone, say schoolchildren
Children's strange misconceptions about science are revealed in a science knowledge quiz.
University targets
Is it a bad idea to send more children to university?
BNP teachers will not be banned
Members of the BNP or any group that might promote racism will not be banned from teaching in England, the government says.
Social care 'badly under-funded'
Adult social care in England is "chronically under-funded" and "severely rationed", a cross-party group of MPs says.
Cases of self-harming rise by 50%
The number of young people admitted to hospital after cutting themselves deliberately rises 50% in five years
Crackdown call over school cheats
Whistleblowing hotlines and random checks should be used to catch parents who cheat over school places, a report says.
News Day highlights
BBC's School Report featured a raft of highlights from 25,000 students who produced some amazing reports and features.
Back to school
Ex-footballer tells how he has overcome cancer
Up
Education spending has been rising for half a century
Patchy picture on school places
Most families in England were given their first choice of secondary school - but the picture is varied.
Say what? A guide to teen slang
School Reporters up and down the country have been asked about teenage slang in their school.