Laura Trott tells Matilda Martin ministers need to help parents and children kick the habit – and councils aren’t doing enough to get truants back to school. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer ...

Six primary schools and more than 5,000 parents or caregivers in the county have signed up to national initiative Parent Pact ...

Shadow education secretary Laura Trott said the Government was instilling screen usage for children as young as four, as the Government came under pressure to ban smartphones in schools. Ms Trott said ...

Shadow education secretary Laura Trott said the Government was instilling screen usage for children as young as four, as the Government came under pressure to ban smartphones in schools.

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill was supported, with MPs voting 379 to 137, majority 242.

Legislation which would see abortion decriminalised for women terminating their own pregnancies has cleared the Commons. MPs voted 312 to 95, majority 217 to approve the Crime and Policing Bill at ...

Giving children smartphones is the same as giving them cigarettes, shadow education secretary Laura Trott has said. Renewing her call for ministers to ban phones in schools, she said they were ...

The Government will consider whether further changes are needed after MPs backed decriminalising women who terminate their pregnancy.