The Prime Minister and Secretary of State Ed Balls have announced the national roll-out of a scheme to give 270,000 low-income families a free computer and broadband access.

This guidance aims to outline LAs' responsibilities for meeting the special educational needs of looked-after children who are placed out-of-authority, and explains how these responsibilities operate.

Ed Balls has announced more support for parents with pupils who have SEN to make sure that they get the right educational support.

Read further details of the announcement, via this press notice.

Read the full Guardian analysis of the just released government commissioned review into the special needs system.

These recently released figures show a narrowing in the gap between boy and girl attainment at G.C.S.E. Also those pupils registered for free school meals have narrowed the gap in relation to overall attainment with their peers.

Ofsted is to come under attack for its inspection regime, from heads of local authorities and headteachers. The new framework is accused of classing good schools as satisfactory and failing other schools based on trivia, notably one school for...