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Joe CampbellSouth of EnglandBBCRemedicare operates from two sites on industrial estates in Wokingham.Ofsted is carrying out a criminal investigation into a business educating children who have…

Vanessa ClarkeEducation reporterClosing schools in Covid ‘a nightmare idea’, former PM Boris Johnson saysPapers in hand, Boris Johnson arrived at the Covid Inquiry before the sun…

Boris Johnson laid blame on the Department for Education (DfE) over its lack of preparation for school closures at the outbreak of the pandemic, telling the…

Keir Starmer’s national grooming gangs inquiry has stalled amid wrangles over its remit and difficulties in finding a senior legal figure willing to become its chair,…

Vanessa ClarkeEducation reporterGetty ImagesA decision by the NHS to redeploy health visitors during the pandemic was “fundamentally flawed” and “children were harmed” as a result, the…

The leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school closures before…

The government should apologise to children for the damaging mistakes and policy errors it committed during the pandemic, the former children’s commissioner for England has told…

The government did not start planning for the closure of schools until the day before the decision was made, the Covid-19 inquiry has heard. Up until…

The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact…

Lana Collie-James was 14 years old in the midst of the Covid pandemic when she was offered a stark choice: her education or her mother’s life.…