Schools

Inclusion tool to give ‘balanced view’ of school performance

EPI tool allows councils and academy trusts to be compared based on how inclusive they are

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Childcare

Wraparound childcare: what primary schools need to know

DfE sets out how schools should deliver its new childcare ‘expectation’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher strikes

Largest trust would shun ‘inflammatory’ new strike laws

Minimum service levels ‘likely to be self-defeating in practice’, warns United Learning

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

RAAC: 119 schools to be rebuilt, 110 will get removal grants

234 schools have now been identified as having confirmed RAAC

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted to examine how SEND pupils are prepared for adulthood

Inspectors will visit a ‘small number of areas’ to look at a ‘particular aspect of SEND in-depth’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
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Ofsted

Ruth Perry: Reading council to survey heads’ wellbeing and challenge rogue Ofsted inspections

Actions follow coroner report into the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, but sister says it shows council has ‘not…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
RAAC

Ofsted rejects RAAC school inspection exemption call

But crumbly concrete disruption will be ‘sufficient grounds to defer the inspection’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Barran wants more ‘good’ schools to join turnaround trusts

But academies minister reveals ‘real challenge’ of changing the ‘joining a MAT is punishment’ narrative

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academy funding

Nearly half of trusts raid their reserves to meet rising costs

Doubling in trusts reporting in-year deficits as auditors warn MATs ‘only one bad year from financial difficulties’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher strikes

NASUWT plans consultative ballot over pay and workload

Teachers’ union says it will ‘take forward its campaigning, up to and including industrial action, to secure a better…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Electric car charging grants for schools rise to £2,500

Ministers say schools could generate revenue by allowing the public to use their charging points

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker