Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: Edition 344

Someone who once trained alongside athlete Linford Christie and a former child West End star are among those starting…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Workload

Performance-related pay in schools to be scrapped from September

New list of admin tasks teachers shouldn’t do will also be published, but plea for extra INSET day snubbed

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Ministers spent £20k covering up £13k influencer spend

Heads union says it’s ‘pretty dispiriting that the government thinks it can get away with squandering public money in…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment and retention

New guidance to help schools tackle harassment of staff

But union said ‘we also need a clear message from government that aggression towards school staff will never be…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

Talks begin to help tourist hotspot school hit by housing crisis

School ‘struggling to make books balance’ as families ‘displaced’ from beauty spot

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

DfE swerves coroner calls for transgender pupil support clarity

Family of Alex Dews warned the teenager ‘fell through the cracks’ and needed more ‘specialist’ support

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey


Academies

Trust cuts primary top slice amid pupil shortfall

Secondaries at big MAT will contribute more to central services in bid to support ‘struggling’ primaries

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ruth Perry’s sister ‘deeply concerned’ over inspection resumption

Waters also pushes new chief inspector to meet with three heads who had ‘uncannily similar’ ordeals to Ruth Perry.

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
School funding

Schools sound alarm over ‘frightening’ 11% funding raid

Council warns it will effectively go bankrupt if its soaring budget black hole is not resolved

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ofsted promises to start recording inspection pauses in new era

Pledge comes after watchdog admits it holds no ‘central record of the number of inspections that have been paused’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
SEND

Trusts plan their own private SEND schools amid place crisis

Government free school support contractor working with five academy trusts on proposals to ‘drive down prices’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

GCSE maths re-sit pass rate lower than pre-pandemic

But performance in English re-takes continues to rise

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker