The Conservative-run county council has agreed to write to Tories in central government to voice its concerns over the negative impact of a new school assessment method – which it says is “isolating pupils”.
The county council has revealed details of how it is spending more than £17 million on repairs and improvements to schools around Derbyshire for the next year.
Hands-on classes such as woodwork and apprenticeships are needed to stop troubled kids at risk of school exclusion from straying into “darker realms,” a county councillor has said.
An investigation into the rising number of permanent exclusions in Derbyshire has found a lack of mental health support, reduced school budgets and new assessment methods to be to blame.
A Crich teenager will take the stage with one of the UK’s leading musical theatre companies for young people this summer after beating hundreds of other hopefuls.
The UK’s only commercial handmade wooden jigsaw manufacturer is celebrating 45 years in business in 2018, and the family who run its Alfreton workshop hope the pieces will fall into place for 45 more.
Kids will be keeping fingers crossed for the news that wintry weather has closed their school - but for parents suddenly stuck with a child-care problem, ‘snow days’ can be a nightmare.
A row has broken out over an outdoor shelter at a Crich nursery, with the property’s managers demanding it be dismantled and parents campaigning to keep it.
