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19 May 2026

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Opinion

Inclusion is more than an add-on. It must be there from the start

…rriculum design. Across Ark’s 39 schools, pupils eligible for pupil premium achieve above national averages, and partner schools using Ark C…

Leila MacTavish

4d | Opinion: Inclusion
News

Schools fail to check out Tory scheme to boost chess

…n, particularly girls, to learn to play”. Schools had to have pupil premium rates of more than 57.5 per cent to be eligible. The grants w…

Esmé Kenney

2w | Schools
News

Sponsored academy pupils make ‘less ambitious’ post-16 choices

New report finds 'clear and systemic patterns' in how pupils' backgrounds affect their post-16 choices

Esmé Kenney

3w | Assessment
News

Almost four in 10 leaders expect school to cut SEND support next year

…mbitions to reform SEND and the day-to-day reality in schools.” Pupil premium 'not enough' The study - which polled 336 senior leaders and 76…

Jack Dyson

3w | School funding
Past Early Access

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News

Academy bosses’ salaries are on the way up, but women are missing out at the top

Our annual investigation shows the average pay for trust chief executives is just over £140,000, but many ...

Jack Dyson

16 Apr 2026 | Academies
Opinion

The white paper’s inclusion promise rests on a workforce the DfE can’t count

Educational psychologists are already stretched thin, unevenly distributed and partly invisible to government

James Zuccollo

16 Apr 2026 | Opinion: Inclusion
Features

Earning the right to deprivation funding

…il database. They were asked to look at the impact of the pupil premium on attainment, and to see how easy it was to use the dataset. Th…

Chaminda Jayanetti

31 Mar 2026 | School funding
News

School staff need better training to support children in care – Ofsted

… availability of external agencies”. Differences in access to pupil premium plus funding and personal education plan (PEP) processes “create…

Freddie Whittaker

12 Mar 2026 | Ofsted
News

Schools white paper: The key schools policies

… be held this summer. 18. Struggling schools to get help with pupil premium strategies New pupil premium strategy reviews will be held fo…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

23 Feb 2026 | Schools white paper
News

New headteachers to get £15k to work where they’re ‘needed most’

…ta will replace free school meals eligibility as the trigger for pupil premium and other deprivation funding for schools under the reforms. …

Freddie Whittaker

21 Feb 2026 | Schools white paper