Tom Bennett OBE is the founder of researchED
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You may never have heard of Jimmy Donaldson, but if you have unsupervised children they almost certainly have. He’s a billionaire YouTuber who specialises in inane viral challenge videos with eye-popping prizes. He has 468 million subscribers. Easily-pleased children love him like they love cans of Monster. His alias is MrBeast which, if Dan Brown
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The Education Act of 1880 made it compulsory for all children in the UK to attend school between the ages of 5 and 10. The 1918 Education Act saw that rise to 14; in 1944 it went to 15. In 1972, the age crept up to 16, and finally in a gasp of heroic ambition,
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London’s schools are about to become less safe. The city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has decided to appoint Maureen McKenna to join its violence reduction unit (VRU), with a view to reducing crime by ‘driving down exclusions in schools’ while ‘increasing a sense of students’ belonging’. The VRU has equally noble aims: ‘we believe violence is
