Leading education lawyers and charities are calling for changes to protect vulnerable young people from extreme bullying.

Private boarding schools are being offered government grants of £10,000 to take in vulnerable children whose parents are on the verge of breaking up.

Bureaucracy is still hampering attempts to get help to vulnerable and abused
children, headteachers warned yesterday.

Vulnerable children are missing out on the life-saving chance of a boarding school education, a headteachers' leader has warned.

Are the best and brightest students going into research? If not, what's to be done – and should we worry that Britain could cease to be a global player in future? The answers, according to a report sent to the Universities Secretary, John Denham, and published exclusively in The Independent today, is that some of the best graduates may be quitting academe, and that we are right to be concerned.