A primary school pupil who told his class he wanted to give ‘alms’ to the needy was reported to the controversial Prevent programme because his teacher thought he had said ‘arms’.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb has said he does not want to see parents criminalised for smacking their children, amid calls to ban the practice in England.

A former Supreme Court judge has hit out at activists pushing for the law to criminalise the expression of beliefs they deem ‘offensive’.

White children in Britain’s poorest communities are failing in education because they largely come from unmarried families, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has said.

A citizens’ jury in Jersey has voted in favour of making assisted suicide and euthanasia legal on the island.

England’s only evangelical Christian fostering and adoption agency has been at the Court of Appeal to challenge a ruling which said it was discriminating by not accepting same-sex couples as foster carers.