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Businesses have said they want character and broader skills, from team leadership to problem solving, to be embedded in the educational curriculum to a much greater extent.

Maths and physics teachers in the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber regions are to receive an extra £2000 “to encourage and support them during the early years of their classroom careers”.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Department for Education (DfE) have published their response to a November 2017 public consultation: “Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention: children and young people”.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Teaching and Learning International Survey (Talis) has concluded that teachers in England have one of the highest workloads in the world.

New teachers are to be given additional advice and support during the first years of their careers thanks to a panel of experts which recently met for the first time.

An advisory group that aims to examine how best to help schools run more character- and resilience-building activities has been created.

Only 16% of outstanding primary and secondary schools inspected this academic year retained their top Ofsted rating according to official statistics.

The findings of an independent review into post-18 education have been welcomed by Prime Minister Theresa May who said that she strongly agrees with a number of the issues identified.

The Government has been advised to make schools responsible for the education of pupils who have been permanently excluded.

The Government has been urged to end the use of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) and to rebrand Design & Technology (D&T) in schools.