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Police patrolling Slade Walk (Picture: Bedford Community Policing Team)

Police step up patrols near primary school after reports of drug dealing nearby

The Health Sciences and Digital Centre (Photo by Cllr Henry Vann)

New look £12.6m tower at the Bedford College riverside campus is unveiled

Department for Education figures show disadvantaged children in Bedford secondary schools received an average score of 33 out of 90 points for ‘Attainment 8’ in 2022-23, while their peers achieved a much higher score of 46.7

Bedford disadvantaged pupils score lower than their peers at GCSE

Pupils exploring their garden. Picture: Central Bedfordshire Council

Schools awarded Green Flags for their commitment to sustainability

17% of parents said their child was not happy at their school while 11% said their kid did not feel safe

A third of parents say Bedford schools not dealing with bullying effectively

Department for Education figures show the average A-level score achieved by pupils in Bedford was 28.5 out of 60 maximum points – the lowest result in the East of England, where youngsters averaged 34 points

Bedford pupils achieved lowest A-level results in the East of England

Wootton Lower School, Bedford Road site, Screenshot Google Streetview (C)2023 Google Image capture June 2023

Work to move to two-tier education continues despite Central Beds pause on plans

Rivertree Free School

Rivertree Free: Name of new special school in Kempston revealed

A special celebratory event to mark the steel frame completion of the school

New Bedford primary school comes step closer to opening

Frank McMahon at the new special school in Kempston

Former headteacher speaks of his pride as new special school is built

Mentors and students meet at Bedford Academy

Bedford Giving reaches mentor milestone
Bedford Giving’s Career Mentoring Programme has reached a major milestone, as the first cohort of mentors and mentees have met for the first time at Bedford Academy, which was a resounding success.

The Cricketer's Schools Guide 2024

Bedford schools named among UK's best for cricket

The VERU Village

Groups including Samsons Academy get slice of £200,000 to tackle youth violence

The first set of Year 5 pupils will move into the newly-created Wootton Primary School in September 2025

Changes at lower school not affected by delays elsewhere in the county

Henry Hillier, pictured left, and Isaac Dailey are aiming to raise funds for Air Ambulance Mapgpas

Two Bedford School pupils all set for cycle marathon in aid of Air Ambulance

Central Bedfordshire Council.

Cranfield will be prioritised in switch to two-tier education says CBC

Staff and pupils from Harrold Primary Academy celebrate their new Ofsted rating

Harrold Primary Academy celebrates a positive new Ofsted report

Victorious! Great Ouse Primary Academy's Year 6 Netball Team

Successful season for newly formed Bedford school netball team

The event is taking place at Bedford Corn Exchange and the Harpur Suite

Young people with special needs invited to adulthood festival

A fraction of the Engineering Icons Tube Map

Cranfield University professor named on engineering icons Tube map

Department for Education figures show 59,000 of 2.9 million school sessions were missed without permission by pupils in Bedford

Unauthorised school absences in Bedford rise significantly

Phillip Ireland

Author's book on autism and high-anxiety gets therapist's seal of approval

Mayor Tom Wootton at the site visit in Kempston

Council chiefs visit site of new £26m special needs school in Kempston

Mike Duxbury and Ness Shillito

Blind Flitwick farmer gets top award from PM Rishi Sunak

Chris Morris Screenshot Children\'s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee Monday, 30th October 2023 Image: LDRS

Council working to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND

Central Bedfordshire Council's Chicksands HQ

Central Bedfordshire Council ordered to pay £500 to mum over SEND complaint

Prison dog handler Kane Walker pictured with his two dogs, Duke, a cocker spaniel, and Jake, a Labrador

Meet the former chef who became the country's youngest prison dog handler

Stock image of a classroom. Picture: Pixabay

Don’t miss deadline for secondary school places in Bedford
The deadline for applications is October 31

Bedford Modern Junior School is to close for urgent repairs to replace inferior concrete

Bedford Modern Junior School to close for urgent repairs

YouthTV Photoshoot

Bedford's YouthTV in crowdfunding campaign to support youth-driven programming

51% of 2,374 eligible pupils in Bedford met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in key stage two in the 2022-23 school year

Bedford children are worse at reading, writing and maths than BEFORE pandemic

Children in school. Image from Getty Images

Bedford schools to receive more money per pupil this year

An artist's impression of the new site

More jobs on the way as school in Bedford set to open new 40-acre site in 2024

Kellie Douglas, Asha Banghard, Lisa-Marie Anesi, Gina Stagno, Dizzie Newberry, Margaret Sanders

Celebrating 4,000 years of service to children in Bedford

The Harpur Trust has awarded bursaries totalling £57,600

Bursaries awarded to help students afford the spiralling costs of university

Heather Kell (L) & Clare Keating-Roberts (R) from Sharnbrook Academy with Ollie Frith (C) from CPI

Sharnbrook Academy wins £1,000 for participating in CPI’s ‘School Behaviour Surv...

Youngsters at Polam School celebrate the top scores

School celebrates its 100th birthday with outstanding set of inspection results

Student of the Year

New look for college achievement ceremony

An example of the illegal parking in Sharnbrook (Picture: Russell Mizon)

VIDEO: Grandad's despair as drivers mount pavements outside village school

Edward Road in Bedford

Man grabs young girl in Bedford street which is home to two schools

L: Castle & Newnham councillors Lucy Bywater and Paul Edmonds and R: the School Street sign

Pilot scheme begins to restrict cars near Bedford primary school

A previous Aquathlon

Bedford Junior Aquathlon returns this October

The children and team at Kiddi Caru Day Nursery in Bedford celebrating their ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating

Bedford nursery celebrates ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating

Pearson IT and Business Classroom Suite

Biddenham School officially opens its Pearson Block

The latest figures from the Department for Education show 172 appeals were made by parents and guardians in Bedford against their child's school place before the 2022-23 academic year

More than 150 appeals against school places in Bedford last year
“This pressure is created by Ofsted judgments”

Ridgmont Lower School

Consultation over future of lower school postponed due to by-election

Staff at Beds University campus are planning to join strike action in demands for a pay increase

University staff at Bedford campus set to join strike action over pay claim

Nationally, there were 53,000 appeals submitted against the 1.5 million admission decisions to send a child to a primary or secondary school, accounting for just 3.4 per cent. (Photo by: Ben Birchall/PA/Radar)

9 SEND children in Central Beds waiting for school places

Parents in Central Bedfordshire need to apply for school places for their children - stock picture

Parents urged to apply now for school places for their youngsters

The incident happened outside St John Rigby Roman Catholic School and Goldington Academy earlier today (Tuesday)

Man arrested for anti-social behaviour outside two schools in Polhill Avenue

A child carries a tray with food. Picture: Getty Images

Families in Bedford will pay more for school meals as new contract agreed

Bedford Modern School

School forced to partially close amid fears over concrete that could collapse

Urban Judge and James Hodgson, headmaster at Bedford School (Picture: Urbco)

Urban Judge from YouthTV sits down with Bedford School headmaster

Bedfordshire’s three local authorities have been selected to lead a new East of England partnership focussed on providing better outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). - Stock picture

Bedfordshire’s councils team up for new SEND partnership

Students celebrating their results as they collect their exam grades

GCSE joy as Bedford students collect their exam results