Permanent school exclusions in Northamptonshire have risen by almost a third with children as young as five being told to leave their primary school for good.
The opening of Daventry’s new library is now less than a month away – but residents will be without a library for two weeks while the move takes place.
A modest teenager who pulled a stricken primary school pupil from a freezing lake earlier this year has been nominated as an ‘unsung hero’ in our education awards.
The man charged with overseeing the safeguarding of children in the Northamptonshire says he has ‘strong concerns’ about the rapid rise in the number of county children being home-schooled.
Northamptonshire nurseries are having to increase hourly rates and ask for voluntary contributions from parents in a bid to keep their businesses open after their funding was cut.
Pupils from Daventry Hill School were given the opportunity to create a film, news article and a design for a new car when they visited Volvo's training centre last week.
Northamptonshire nurseries will go under and staff will lose their jobs, early years providers have warned, as a £1.8m budget reduction will hit the sector from next week.
A councillor is urging Northamptonshire County Council to take steps to tackle the current situation in which a third of the county’s secondary schools are under par.
‘Any excluded child is a child at risk and we need to be dealing with it’ is the stark warning from the new children’s director at Northamptonshire County Council.
Cash-strapped Northamptonshire County Council is proposing to reduce the amount it pays to nurseries and childminders in a bid to reduce £1.8m from its early years payments.
