It’s the start of the autumn term. Teachers are setting up their classrooms, and children (and their parents) are getting ready for the return to school or a momentous step up to primary education. But an increasing number of young people – around 92,000 in England, at the government’s last count – won’t be heading into classrooms this week. Instead, they’ll be receiving education at home.

Just a few years ago, home schooling might have seemed like a quirky, unusual choice. It’s clearly anything but now: social media is full of video reels and discussions on home education. Lucie Wheeler, who’s carrying out PhD research on home educators, explains some of the reasons parents make this decision – and why some families feel they have no option but to take their children out of school.

Something else that’s increased rapidly in recent years is the proportion of people with food allergies, which has more than doubled in England since 2008. Sheena Cruickshank explains what scientists think is happening.

And new research has shown how much women are discriminated against when it comes to borrowing money, and how AI is about to make things even worse unless action is taken.

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