Private schools should set up quarantine areas for pupils suspected of having swine flu, according to advice sent yesterday to more than 1,280 such schools across Britain.

A review of testing today left the door open for primary school Sats to be scrapped in the future, in favour of teacher assessment.

Labour signalled a move away from traditional paper and pencil exams yesterday, after an expert group set up by Schools Secretary Ed Balls recommended the abolition of science exams for 11-year-olds.

Tom Daley, the teenage diver tipped to win gold for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, has been the victim of a bullying campaign so severe his parents may be forced to move him to a new school.

Successful primary schools will be given independence from local authority control by a Conservative Government, with power over their own budgets, curriculum, discipline and staff, shadow education secretary Michael Gove announced today.

Demi Darley is 10. She lives in one of the most deprived boroughs of the country, where life expectancy is far below the national average, and high rates of obesity and heart disease go hand in hand with unemployment and low aspiration. In her neighbourhood, a garden is a luxury.