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17 June 2026

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Rosa Furneaux

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Councils splurge £18m on private special schools with repeated failures

Millions funnelled in just one year to settings that have failed independent school standards

Rosa Furneaux

4 Apr 2025 | Inclusion
Features

‘What we see are wasted lives’: Meet the Ofsted illegal schools team

In a rare interview, the Ofsted team tasked with tackling illegal schools speaks about the horrors they ...

Rosa Furneaux

31 Mar 2025 | Ofsted
News

sQuid: Give us back our money, parents tell closed payment provider

Company shut up shop in the UK last Friday. Around 600 schools used it

Rosa Furneaux

21 Mar 2025 | Schools
News

‘Devastating and dangerous’: Schools hit by £82m budget raid for SEND

Councils slice record amount from school funds to prop up high needs shortfalls

Rosa Furneaux

14 Mar 2025 | School funding
News

Cheaper to pay fines than provide SEND support

Councils pay families thousands of pounds for failure to provide support stipulated in EHCPs

Rosa Furneaux

7 Mar 2025 | Inclusion
News

Special school leaders fear QTS plan could worsen recruitment crisis

Special schools have more unqualified teachers - so how will the schools bill affect them? We spoke to ...

Rosa Furneaux

2 Mar 2025
Features

Private special schools charging councils £100k fees failed standards checks

Private equity-owned independent special schools which charge councils fees of up to £131,000 a year are ...

Rosa Furneaux

17 Feb 2025 | Inclusion
News

Child Prevent referrals to be ‘routinely’ escalated

Major review comes after teenager who murdered three girls in Southport was referred to the programme ...

Rosa Furneaux

6 Feb 2025
News

‘Jobs on the line’ as Devon schools hit by software ‘glitch’

'I redid my whole budget about four times before I finally got it to give me correct figures'

Rosa Furneaux

31 Jan 2025 | School funding
News

School Prevent referrals rise – but fewer get support

Schools say they are ‘caught between rock and hard place’ over anti-terrorism unit referrals

Rosa Furneaux

24 Jan 2025