A chemistry teacher in the UK who sent a schoolgirl indecent photographs of himself with his private parts covered by emojis has been jailed for 15 months.

The chairman of British education watchdog Ofsted has resigned after causing controversy by branding the Isle of Wight a “ghetto” where there was “inbreeding”.

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Failing children’s services that are putting the lives of young people at risk will now be taken over by other councils and charities, British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.

The former manager of world champion Mark Selby is campaigning to put snooker on the UK curriculum.

Child protection systems in Britain must be reviewed following alarming evidence that organised abuse is widespread in England in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, MPs have said.

A 15-year-old boy remains in custody in the UK following the fatal stabbing of a much-loved teacher in her classroom.

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Tracey Connelly – the mother of Baby P – has been released from a British prison, it has emerged.

Former child protection boss Sharon Shoesmith has reached a settlement over her unfair dismissal following the Baby P tragedy in the UK, it was confirmed today.

Schools in England are losing their sense of humour under piles of data and spreadsheets as headteachers are forced to “wrestle with an octopus” of government initiatives and reforms, a union leader will warn today.

The state body for monitoring school attendance has said it is “very lucky” to be employing a consultant who quit as director of children’s services in Britain following a damning report.

The Supreme Court in Britain has rejected applications by the Department for Education and Haringey Council for leave to challenge a landmark ruling that Sharon Shoesmith was unfairly sacked following the Baby P tragedy.

A NURSERY assistant arrested on suspicion of abusing a child at his workplace was initially taken into custody on suspicion of sexual offences against a different child, police said last night.

BRITAIN’S education department is to look at how it can check Islamic weekend schools after the BBC reported it had uncovered more than 40 of them teaching anti-Semitic views and extreme punishment for sodomy and theft.

Baby P's mother named her violent partner as her next of kin on an official form but UK authorities still failed to realise he was living with her, a previously secret report has revealed.

Baby P’s mother named her violent partner as her next of kin on an official form but authorities still failed to realise he was living with her, a previously secret report revealed today.

More damning failings that led to Baby P’s death will be revealed today with the publication of previously secret official reports.

THE decision by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls to strip former children’s services chief Sharon Shoesmith of her post following the death of Baby P was upheld by the High Court yesterday.

Former children’s services chief Sharon Shoesmith today lost her UK High Court battle over her sacking following the death of Baby P.

THE former head of children’s services at Haringey Council has been financially ruined after being sacked over the Baby P case and will never work again, her lawyer has told the High Court.

The former children’s services chief who lost her job over the Baby P tragedy will today launch a judicial challenge against her sacking.

DETECTIVES have questioned five people as part of an investigation into unexplained broken bones suffered by three toddlers who attended a nursery in Nottinghamshire.

The Justice March For Baby P delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street in London today calling for “urgent far reaching changes to the child protection system”.

Shannon Matthews was taken off the British child protection register on the orders of social services’ managers despite warnings from social workers, it was claimed today.

More than 60 headteachers today voiced their support for one of the officials at the centre of the row over Baby P’s tragic death.

Fresh questions are being asked in the UK about whether ministers and inspectors could have prevented Baby P’s death as the first picture of the little boy was made public.

Police were tonight continuing to hold 14 men arrested as part of an anti-terror investigation that has seen officers spend another day searching an Islamic school.

An Islamic school remains the focus of a police anti-terror investigation today which has seen 14 people arrested in raids.

A police spokeswoman has said no arrests had been made at the Jameah Islamiyah Secondary School in Mark Cross, Sussex, after police carried out searches early today.

A disabled teenage boy was stripped naked and showered by his teachers because he smelled of urine, it emerged yesterday.

The principal who hired Ian Huntley as a caretaker without checking his references today hoped that tougher safeguards will be put in place to stop such a tragedy ever happening again.