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Schools across England will face major disruption today as teachers strike over pay (Photo: Getty Images)

Back to school - teachers strikes finally over

NEU members are set to go on strike for two days this week over an ongoing dispute over pay with the government. (Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Teachers to walk out for 2 days this week

Ruth Perry was the headteacher at Caversham Primary School (Photo: Brighter Futures for Children)

Ofsted changes being considered after death of headteacher

Fylde Coast teachers join the National Education Union strike. teachers and supporters at South Shore Academy. David Craggs.

Teacher strikes: Picket lines form across Blackpool schools

Huge shake-up to student loan payments to hit millions of young people

Ministers to review Omicron data to decide if tighter measures will be needed in England (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Ministers to review Omicron data to decide if tighter measures will be needed in...

Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, said that she supported Williamson’s plan to formally ban smartphones in schools (Photo: PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Distracting and damaging’ mobile phones could be banned in schools from January

School mobile phone bans considered in behaviour consultation (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

School mobile phone bans considered in behaviour consultation

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said he wants to make the school day mobile-free

School mobile phone bans considered in behaviour consultation

Gavin Williamson has branded the move to take down the Queen's portrait as absurd (WPA Pool/Getty)

Oxford students vote to remove Queen’s portrait as she is ‘colonial symbol’

Education Secretary Gavin Wiliamson has not ruled out longer school days for children (Photo: Getty Images)

School days could be made longer and holidays shortened to help children catch u...

A 'free speech champion' could be appointed at universities - but what does it mean? (Photo: Shutterstock)

A 'free speech champion' could be appointed at universities - but what does it m...

Primary and secondary schools across England are currently closed due to Covid-19, with the exception of children of key workers and vulnerable children (Photo: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images)

Schools in England should get 2 weeks’ notice before reopening - the current est...

Teachers are ‘top priority’ in phase two for Covid jab - as expert advises staff...

Primary school teachers to self-test for Covid from next week - with plans for p... Helen Johnson

Schools are expected to provide between three and five hours teaching a day

Decision to allow parents to report schools over remote lessons provokes fury

GCSE, A Levels and SATs exams in England will be replaced by teacher assessments...

Primary schools in these areas of England are not expected to reopen next week

Some primary and secondary schools in England won’t reopen next week - the lates...

With children being sent home from school due to cases of Coronavirus, what should parents do if their children are sent home because somebody else has tested positive? (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Here’s what parents should do if their child is sent home from school due to cor...

Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary for England, has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently, following the disastrous way in which A level results were handled by the government this year (Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has been called to resign over the A levels...

Pupils can be awarded their school or college estimated grade (Photo: Shutterstock)

How the U-turn on A level results has impacted university applications - and wha...

Students wearing face masks take part in a protest in Westminster in London over the government's handling of A-level results, university provision and bleak employment prospects.. Photo credit : Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Lancashire's college bosses unite to call for Ofqual algorithm to be overridden...

The Prime Minister told Times Radio that teaching unions and councils should be saying "loud and clear" that schools are safe.

Parents who do not send children back to school in September could be fined

The Education Secretary has indicated GCSE and A-level exams could be pushed back next year

GCSE and A-level exams could be pushed back in 2021

Children and teacher maintain social distancing measures while they take part in lessons

When are children set to return to school across the UK?
The Education Secretary has confirmed that primary schools in England will not be able to welcome all pupils back before the summer holidays.
Iain Lynn

Lancashire nursery schools get less funding than anywhere in England

Call for cash boost for county's nursery schools

Schools urged to eliminate single-use plastics by 2022

Schools urged to eliminate single-use plastics by 2022

In 2018-19 Lancashire County Council will spend 106 less on each pupil than last year

More than Â£100 school funding cut for every pupil in Lancashire

Minister pleges to cut working hours for teachers in bid to tackle staff shortag...

Jon Platt, who successfully challenged a conviction for taking his daughter on an unauthorised holiday during school term time

Supreme Court reserve judgement in term-time holiday legal battle