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. Schools secretary says report will bring changes . Union suggests move may avert teacher boycottThe schools secretary, Ed Balls, has given his strongest indication to date that the current system of Sats tests will be scrapped - but he insisted that some form of test at the end of primary school will stay. He told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers' conference in Liverpool that the system 'was not set in stone', and that he would work with teachers and parents to make changes. But he said any reforms would not be introduced until 2011 at the earliest - after the 2010 deadline set by two other teaching unions that are threatening to boycott next year's tests if they aren't scrapped. Balls promised to act on the advice of an expert group convened to look at the future of tests for 11-year-olds, which was set up after the collapse of the marking system last year that led to the scrapping of tests for 14-year-olds. 'The right thing to do is to look at the expert group's report and

As teachers' rights return to the spotlight the profession finds an unlikely ally in Cassandra Jardine.

When told their son's autism was "untreatable," two parents stepped into action.

Flexible-working rights extended to millions more parents

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Investigators in the German Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Study have identified several novel risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, including sleeping away from home or sleeping outside the parent's bedroom.

Baby Steps is a multimedia system that combines sentimental snapping with medical record-keeping. The experimental product feels like a fun toy for parents, but researchers found in a pilot study that parents who used it regularly collected twice as much medically relevant information about their child's developmental progress.

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AUSTRALIAN parents are rolling out the welcome mat for paedophiles by allowing their children unfettered access to the internet, a parenting expert has warned.

A Native New Yorker Claire Danes was encouraged to pursue her interest in acting by artistic parents. By age nine, Danes was taking weekend acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and at age 11 she made her film acting debut portraying a mol

Lindsay Lohan has blasted her ex, Samantha Ronson, for cheating on her and taking drugs while they were still together.The ‘Parent Trap’ actress is reported to have split with the DJ after the pair’s turbulent one year relationship turned sour after rumours of cheating and drugs.Lohan has leaked intimate details of their relationship in  her blog on [...]