5 h. ago Voices: Nothing is more toxic than a school parents’ WhatsApp group

Schools are reportedly asking lawyers to draw up codes of conduct to help manage parent WhatsApp groups – what a good idea, says mum-of-two Charlotte Cripps

Events

55 h. ago Voices: I’ve been bullied on the class WhatsApp – the parents are even worse than the kids

Schools are reportedly asking lawyers to draw up codes of conduct to help manage parent WhatsApp groups, but it’s not just teachers suffering abuse on them, says Caroline Brown, it’s parents like me

Politics

6 d. ago Britain's 'bullying' school WhatsApps: How parents gang up on teachers, embarrass children and humiliate parents in cliquey group chats

A WhatsApp chat of parents seems innocent on the surface but, according to testimonies from parents across the nation, they are a place where clique behaviours and humiliation run rife.

Society

9 d. ago Now schools ask lawyers to draw up codes of conduct for parent WhatsApp groups

The Employment Rights Bill could make employers liable if they do not take 'all reasonable steps' to prevent their staff from harassment

Society

3 w. ago Parents arrested after complaining about daughter's school in WhatsApp chat

Six police officers descended on the home of Maxie Allen and his partner Rosalind Levine and arrested the pair on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications.

Society

3 w. ago Police chief blasts force after parents arrested over school WhatsApp group

Times Radio producer Maxie Allen, 50 and his partner Rosalind Levine, 46, were arrested on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications after a 'trivial' dispute.

Events

3 w. ago Police chief criticises force after parents arrested for complaining about daughter's school in WhatsApp group

Jonathan Ash-Edwards, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire, said the force should never have been involved in the first place

Events

3 w. ago Parents arrested for complaining about school in Whatsapp group

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine say they were detained by six Hertfordshire police officers in front of their young daughter

Society

3 w. ago Parents arrested after making 'disparaging' comments about school in WhatsApp chat

Constabulary defends action after six officers sent to arrest two parents in front of children

Events

3 w. ago Moment father who complained about teacher recruitment process in parents' WhatsApp group is arrested for 'harassment', led away by six police officers and interrogated for 11 HOURS

Police questioned a father on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications after he complained about a teacher recruitment process in a parents' WhatsApp group.

Events

4 w. ago Author Richard Osman says he will 'take on Meta' to fight against AI copyright infringement

The television presenter hit back at the tech giant as it was revealed the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.

Sport