News

Search launched to find best school inclusion solutions

Call for evidence to find ‘practical and scalable solutions’ for mainstream school inclusion

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Schools Week Reporter
News

RISE teams to prioritise English and maths, reception, inclusion and attainment, says Phillipson

Education secretary tells leaders to ban phones in all classrooms and the ‘inclusion vs standards compromise’ doesn’t exist

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ofsted reform critics want ‘low-accountability system’, claims chief inspector

Sir Martyn Oliver says new report cards ‘are not and never were going to bring about the end of…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
School funding

School budgets much worse than we thought, say leaders

Need to cover the rest of this year’s pay rise means £1.3m funding announced at autumn budget won’t cover…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Governance

Trust makes schools shareholders so ‘their voice always heard’

Biggest trust gives local governing body chairs ‘share certificates’ so they have vote on trust-wide decisions

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Revealed: The academy CEO pay premium

More than 60 CEOs earned over £200k, biggest-ever Schools Week executive pay investigation reveals

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Funding

‘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
Rosa Furneaux
SEND

ASCL head: Leaders turning away SEND kids need ‘calling out’

While wider reform is needed, leaders must create a ‘culture that is more inclusive and more open’, says union…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Schools told to provide breakfasts for ‘half the price of a Greggs sausage roll’ – ASCL president

Headteacher will take aim at education secretary for ‘smorgasbord of policies’ but lack of ‘vision’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Movers and Shakers

Northern Education Trust appoints new chief executive officer

Deputy to step up to top role, as another large trust appoints a new boss

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
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Schools

‘Now or never’ for 6,500 teacher pledge, Labour warned, as vacancies reach new high

Teacher leaving rates have not improved since before the pandemic, report warns

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks