Employment and skills support in local areas will become even more fragmented if councils are sidelined in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill.

New expert attendance advisers with decades of first-hand experience are to begin work to reduce pupil absence.

The cumulative number of young people being electively home educated during 2020-21 was 34 per cent higher than 2019-20 totals.

Universities will be required to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children by driving up education standards in schools in the local community.

The number of vulnerable children being placed in council care could reach almost 100,000 by the middle of the decade.

More than a million vulnerable children in England have had their life chances reduced by cuts to early years and youth support since 2010.

The LGA has launched a new online resource to map national employment and skills provision in every local authority in England.

Over 100,000 young people across the country have now started jobs through the government’s landmark Kickstart Scheme.

Children and young people will soon be able to undertake a new Climate Award in recognition for their work to improve their environment.

Last week’s Budget announcement contained a stealth cut to funding for youth services worth more than £400 million over the next three years.

Education unions have written to the Education Secretary urging him to take action to ensure climate change education becomes fully embedded in ​the system.

The LGA has urged for school-based counselling to be available and fully funded in all state funded secondary schools and academies.

Children in more than a thousand schools are now enjoying next-generation internet speeds and lightning-fast gigabit broadband.

Graduates applying to train as teachers in high-demand subjects will receive thousands of pounds in tax-free cash bursaries.

Labour is calling for urgent action on ventilation following a 67 per cent increase in the number of children out of school due to coronavirus.

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