Movers and Shakers Ex-Labour education adviser appointed to new Oak board Seven-strong permanent board at controversial arms-length body appointed Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Ofsted School leaders to get Ofsted support under ‘Caversham Covenant’ Heads in Southampton will get help to deal with ‘the strains of Ofsted’ in new scheme named after Ruth… Schools Week Reporter 1y Schools Week Reporter 1y Free school meals Exclusive Newham Council’s flagship free school meals firm posts £1.4m loss Catering company blames ‘rocketing inflation’ for financial difficulties Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y SEND Council bids to take special free school build into own hands Bracknell Forest wants to get ‘certainty’ over opening date of vital special school Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y SEND SEND shoots up political agenda as MPs reveal woes A cross-party group of MPs detailed SEND system problems in their own constituencies Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Schools Exclusive Secret settlement in £370k superhead’s legal row with council Six-year saga ended with confidential agreement – leaving community in the dark Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Teacher strikes NEU to hold indicative ballot over potential strike action Country’s largest teacher union to run indicative ballot in March asking members to back strike action Schools Week Reporter 1y Schools Week Reporter 1y Ofsted Exclusive Leaders at Ofsted’s first rapid revisit school resign over ‘traumatic’ inspections Heads say new policy to speed up reinspections over safeguarding failures still had ‘profound impact’ Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Ofsted New Ofsted inspection pauses: how they would work Inspections could be paused for up to five days over leader wellbeing concerns, new policy states Schools Week Reporter 1y Schools Week Reporter 1y Workload Small schools dub new workload admin list ‘unrealistic’ Schools need more funding to cut teacher working hours, warn leaders Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Academies Exclusive Closing academy trust exposes ‘vulnerability’ of primary schools The Diocese of Bristol Academies Trust will hand over its schools after being stripped of its only secondary Jack Dyson 1y Jack Dyson 1y Ofsted Ofsted Ruth Perry report response: What you need to know Watchdog to explore standalone safeguarding judgment and narrowing gap between inspections and reports Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Newer 1 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 979 Older