How to get notification of ios update

Hi everyone
I'm an Apple newbie, having bought an iPad Mini a few weeks ago, and I'm still trying to understand some of iOS's quirks. Latest puzzle concerns updates to iOS, grateful if someone can advise how this is supposed to happen.
So I saw an article on the BBC News website saying there was an important security update. Looked at the iPad home screen - nothing there. Looked in the Notification Centre, nothing there. Drilled down into Settings>General>Updates, and there it was, so I installed it and I'm now up to 7.0.6. But I really don't want to have to go into this every couple of weeks just to see whether there's an update, I expect the device to notify me somehow. So my questions are:
1. I really want this to work like Windows Update, ie downloading and installing in the background. Can iOS be set to do this, if so how ?
2. If that really isn't possible, then I want to get a notification that an update is available. How can I get a message either in the Notification Centre or on the home screen to tell me ? NB I've seen references in other posts to getting a little red "badge" on the Settings icon, but I emphasise that I didn't get that. I know what it ought to look like because I've seen similar badges on the App Store icon, but I did not get that on the Settings icon. Do I have to turn that feature on in some way, if so how ?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks King_Penguin, that's very helpful. Didn't know it had to be connected to power to even get a notification, that could well be why I didn't get the badge. Odd though; I can understand needing power in order to install an update (in fact I recall getting a prompt to do just that when I updated), but not just to discover whether an update is available. Have some helpful points on me !

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