
Jason Farrell
Home editor at Sky News
Home Editor Sky News, Author: County Lines, How To Lose A Referendum, Films: Primodos The Secret Drug Scandal, Through the Storm, Running With Bulls.
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Jason Farrell
A new report has found more children than ever are not in school, with the number of lost days of learning up nearly 70% in five years. It is the most vulnerable children who skip school, are excluded, or simply disappear from education. The analysis found that children lost 6.8 million days of learning in the autumn term before the COVID pandemic (2019/20) due to suspensions and absences, but the figure was 11.5 million days in the same period in 2023/24.
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Jason Farrell
This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of their sentences, there is a cohort of the prison population who have served extended sentences, years beyond their minimum term. IPP sentences (imprisonment for public protection) were introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Jason Farrell
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Jason Farrell
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Jason Farrell
A member of MI5, who leads counterterrorism teams, has told an inquest how the security service continued to investigate Rhianan Rudd until her suicide in a care home, aged 16. The man, referred to in court as 'Witness A', appeared behind a blue curtain and could not be seen by anyone in the courtroom as he addressed the inquest today. He said it was necessary to investigate the teenager "to assess the risk she posed to national security".
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