in the past decade, ten us states have given parents an option on school choice. if they choose to they can opt to send their children to private schools and in return they will get some tax relief to help offset those fees. that gives countless families says jo, particularly those who live in inner cities with underperforming schools the chance to attend a private school. makes it more affordable. but this side of the pond, the opposition wants to go the other way. labour say they will add vat to private school fees and won t strip schools of their charitable status, which would deny them the 80% relief they got on business rates. that change say labour would generate up to £1.5 billion in additional revenue. the daily mail says today that will unfairly punish the smaller independent schools. good one for this for one panel. joe supports it. and since leaving parliamentjustine has campaigned for social mobility, equality of opportunity. so lets see how they view this. why
hello and welcome to the programme. the us soldier travis king, who was being held in north korea, is due home in the coming hours. he was handed over to us officials in china, although the circumstances of his return have not been fully revealed. private king entered north korea by running across the demilitarised zone from south korea injuly. he had been due to be flown to the us to face military disciplinary proceedings, when he escaped his escort. north korea earlier said it would expel the soldier for illegally entering its territory. us national security adviser jake sullivan has thanked both china and sweden for their assistance in gaining private king s release. jean mckenzie reports. jean mackenzie reports. this is travis king moments before he ran into north korea during a tour of the demilitarised zone. the us soldier had been in trouble with the south korean authorities and was being sent home to be disciplined by the army. the north koreans have kept his whereabo
and on newsnight at 10:30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live with some key players on today s big stories. plus, a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. there are warnings tonight of a generation of children, being permanently affected by past covid lockdowns, the last of which ended more than two years ago. who can forget that overnight, schools shut their doors while thousands of children were kept at home learning online? but now it s clear, growing numbers of youngsters are persistently missing school, with the children s commissioner for england warning the crisis needs to be tackled as a matter of urgency. at least one in five pupils in england is now persistently absent meaning they re missing 10% or more of their lessons that s double the rate, before the pandemic. a committee of mps is recommending a series of measures including a national roll out of attendance mentors to work with families. new guidance on the standardisation of
shaken loose some of the senior executives who ve been at the trust for many years. the longtime ceo of uhb announced his retirement from the nhs on the day the first review was published. in the few days before the latest publication, the trust s chief legal officer, david burbridge, and the chief medical officer, simon ball, both abruptly announced their departures. i m jonathan, nice to meet you. pleased to meet you. but the trust ceo jonathan brotherton, brought in to help change the culture of the trust, is still in place. although he was only appointed to the top job injuly, he has been a senior manager at uhb since 2014. it was he who responded on behalf of the trust to today s report. but clearly the experiences that people have shared with the culture review team demonstrate that there are. there are unacceptable behaviours in this organisation and there are really poor working practices in some areas, and those are the areas that we now need to go after. and we re r
Catherine, Princess of Wales, could possibly appear on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the Saturday, June 15, 'Trooping the Colour' event in a reported bid to please everyone.