Covid testing pilot projects are launched in universities – as plans begin to get students home at Christmas.

Many parents have to take part by phone – and some cannot follow what’s happening, a survey suggests.

The percentage of pupils in England’s schools fell last week from 89% to 86%, statistics show.

A judge quashed a decision which would force them to stop living on the land they own.

The prime minister insists he has the right approach and no child will go hungry this winter.

John Swinney says there is a “realistic possibility” students will be asked to stay away from their families.

People aged 16-25 were more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job.

Marcus Rashford’s campaign is “phenomenal” but not the “right way” to solve the issue, Brandon Lewis says.

The use of testing, plus staggering the return to campus will form a strategy to get students home for Christmas.

Tory MPs join some 2,000 doctors in voicing concern, as Labour threatens to push for another vote.

One head teacher says he was “flattened” when the 61 laptops he was expecting was cut to 13.

Sending some children home may be the only way to control infection rates, Prof Neil Ferguson says.