Children arrested during raids on illegally large classrooms

A number of armed raids around the country have led to the arrest of seventeen children charged with breaching laws on classroom sizes.
Government figures released this week showed that the number of five-to-seven year-olds being taught in “unlawfully large classes” has doubled in the last ten years, prompting local police forces to take action [...]

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