We fact check and explain issues about schools, teacher shortages, childcare, universities, and qualifications.
Education
A question at PMQs by Labour MP Stephen Timms suggested this wasn’t the case. Free school meal eligibility has been temporarily extended to some of these children. Read
Education
Teachers were surveyed between 7 and 17 May on whether they thought families would send their children back to school when they reopened. Read
Health
This was the opinion of the Independent SAGE, who are a different group of scientists. Read
Education
Claims that the UK’s favourite books of the last three years include the Modern Kama Sutra and a scratch and sniff book about cannabis are based on limited data. Read
Boris Johnson’s claims about education in Scotland are not all quite right. Read
Education
Research found one in seven parents spend less than 15 minutes a week reading to their young children, but that doesn’t mean one in seven children are read to for less than 15 minutes. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Public spending amounts to around 40% of the size of the economy. It’s been smaller before. It’s also been bigger before. Read
Angela Rayner claimed tuition fees were £1,000 under Labour and that Labour didn’t triple them. Labour tripled tuition fees from £1,000 to £3,000 in 2006. Read
A commitment to raise teacher salaries to £30,000 by 2022/23 would likely put new teachers in the top quarter of graduate earners in England. Read
Conservative party leader Boris Johnson took part in an audience phone-in on LBC Radio. We fact checked his responses. Read
