Portugal's education ministry has put draft guidance on AI in schools out for 30 days of comment. It keeps AI tools away from preschoolers, asks parental consent below 13 and bars AI detectors as sole proof of cheating.
A joint PSD and PS rewrite of the citizens' parental leave bill won an indicative vote in a parliamentary working group on Tuesday. It still needs the Labour Committee and a final plenary vote, and covers only leave starting from 1 January 2027.
Disability federations say most of the 98 Resource Centres for Inclusion are not working because their funding is unknown, as in past years. What the centres do, and what parents can ask the school.
The Douro council's new First Steps scheme, in force from Thursday, refunds receipts for food, clothes, furniture and health care bought in local shops. Four parishes published smaller birth grants of their own on the same day.
The UTAO puts the citizens' bill at about 230 million euros a year, against 445.2 million from the Government and 115.9 million from Social Security, and says the Government assumes parents will switch to sharing in numbers its own data do not show.
How Portugal's school social support works: free or half-price meals, help with materials and trips, who qualifies, and how to apply at your school.
An order published on Tuesday raises the fee paid to families who take older or disabled adults into their homes, for 2025 and 2026 at once. The fee is up 9.8 percent on 2024, and the 1991 law says it should be updated every year.
