Schools

Poorer pupils less likely to attend top comprehensives

Schools with best progress 8 scores have a lower proportion of disadvantaged pupils than their catchment areas, study finds

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

DfE will repay schools £4k for RAAC surveys – but there’s a catch

Funding will only be available for surveys carried out over a two-month period last year

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Free school meals

Khan extends London primary free school meals for a year

Mayor also raises per-meal funding to £3 following repeated warnings that schools faced a shortfall

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Recruitment and retention

AET heads to get £100k worth of CPD and sabbaticals

Leaders will get up to 100 hours of professional development each year in scheme to ‘bring joy back into…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Movers and Shakers

LocatED: Ex-Tory minister to chair DfE property arm for £1k-a-day

Former housing minister and Hertford MP Mark Prisk appointed by Gillian Keegan

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Politics

Phillipson invokes zeal of Gove reforms in Labour schools vision

Former minister brought ‘energy and drive and determination’ that is required again, says shadow education secretary

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Attendance

Ofsted will review absence during safeguarding checks, says Labour

Bridget Phillipson will also announce a Labour government will use AI to spot trends in attendance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted: Inspectors locked out of new training after tech glitch

Watchdog promises to send video of mental health training to all inspectors after hundreds were unable to access the…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Attendance

18 new attendance hubs to help 2,000 schools cut absence

DfE also confirms £15m rollout of attendance mentor scheme and new parent marketing campaign

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted inspections to restart on January 22

Union leaders and MAT body boss will also provide ‘constructive challenge’ on Ofsted’s response to critical coroner report

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Ofsted ‘didn’t bother’ recording headteacher distress inspection pauses

Ofsted not able to provide evidence for claims it made under oath that inspectors had paused inspections due to…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Movers and Shakers

Free school founder joins Ormiston as national transformation director

Well-known leader takes up secondment at country’s ninth biggest trust

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter