The Guardian – Schools funding crisis grows as special needs costs soar to £10bn
The Guardian says a report shows the cost of special needs education in England has hit £10bn a year, with the number of children and young people entitled to government support expected to double to one million within a decade.
A large image of Gisèle Pelicot – the French woman who was drugged and raped by her husband and at least 50 other men over nine years. She told the court: “I am a woman who is totally destroyed, and I don’t know how I’m going to rebuild myself. I’m 72 soon and I’m not sure my life will be long enough to recover from this.”
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 24 October 2024.
Thursday’s headlines continue to speculate on the upcoming October budget, due out next week. The papers report on measures they expect to be included.
A handful of broadsheets lead with the supposed row that has erupted after Donald Trump accused the Labour Party of election interference.
Elsewhere, other domestic stories make the front pages including the death of a former British Olympian and the remarkable story of a baby who survived after her mother fell from a block of flats in Leeds.