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17 June 2026

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This week’s best responses from our readers

Missing! A piece of the admissions puzzle. A ministerial responsibility. Support for familes. And clarity ...

Various

26 Sep 2025 | Letters to the editor
Opinion

Ofsted’s ill-considered inclusion judgment is a poisoned chalice

… The focus on race equality was abandoned in 2012, replaced by ‘pupil premium’ pupils, and now by SEND and children known to social care. B…

Meena Wood

24 Sep 2025 | Opinion: Accountability
Opinion

Six changes Labour must make to the SEND code of practice

…e of 3.5 per cent). Half of our school’s pupils are eligible for pupil premium, and we operate a 12-place enhanced resource provision for deaf …

Jude Macdonald

24 Sep 2025 | Opinion: Inclusion
News

Children’s minister gets beefed-up schools brief as portfolios revealed

…y and pensions school support staff core school funding pupil premium qualifications (including links with Ofqual) curricul…

John Dickens

22 Sep 2025 | Politics
Opinion

Now is the time to transform your pupil premium strategy

…n for school leaders that matters more than most: updating their pupil premium strategy statement before 31 December. In the whirlwind of sc…

Chris Paterson

10 Sep 2025 | Opinion: Funding
News

Restrict EHCPs to pupils with most severe needs, says children’s commissioner

Report calls for education, health and care plans to be split into three tiers of support

Freddie Whittaker

8 Sep 2025 | Inclusion
News

‘Little progress’ made in closing university progression gap

…ehind their better-off peers, the think tank added. It said a pupil premium for these students should be introduced for 16-19 year olds alon…

Ruth Lucas

1 Aug 2025
News

Schools locked out of PE premium reporting system can submit returns in September, says DfE

Government confirms schools will receive 'support' to file returns in the new academic year

Freddie Whittaker

24 Jul 2025
Opinion

Our admissions policies are a key lever for social justice

…CSE progress score of +1.32 put us in the top 0.5 per cent, with pupil premium students achieving +0.87, well above national average. Good r…

Chris Fairbairn

19 Jul 2025 | Opinion
News

NPQs take-up collapses after government funding cut

…d leaders in the top half of schools with the most youngsters on pupil premium have been eligible for funded NPQs, apart from those for he…

Freddie Whittaker

10 Jul 2025 | Teacher training and development