Some models of ‘fair banding’ impose equally-sized attainment bands. This can artificially over-represent high prior ...

Thirty-eight councils with the biggest SEND deficits have signed up to controversial “safety-valve” deals. The government ...

In all, £183,274.80 was spent on the project before it was “placed on hiatus in late 2022”. The documents say the ...

In a briefing to members, seen by Schools Week, Leora Cruddas, the chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts (CST ...

In 2021, the DfE estimated repairing or replacing all defects in England’s schools would cost more than £11 billion. That ...

Charles Dickens provides free breakfast and after-school club provision from 8am to 9am, and 3pm to 5.30pm for the children ...

But the SEND system is not broken. Under-funded? Yes. Under-resourced? In every sense, yes. But no amount of funding and ...

The Employment Rights Bill was laid before parliament last Thursday, in line with the Labour government’s commitment to ...

The bar for trusts and councils issued with new notices to improve school estates will be “very high”, and only if they are ...

Exam invigilators and some supply teachers may need to be given fixed-term contracts and pensions, lawyers say ...

“The subject is ‘Year 11 needed off roll’, and it says ‘just conscious that PLASC [the January census] is approaching and ...

Over the past two years, The Engagement Platform (TEP) has worked with a group of around 100 schools to better understand the ...