Attendance Exclusive Absence fines rake in £19m as schools and councils get strict Takings from absence fines were 17.5% higher last year than before the pandemic Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Academies Long read Top of the trusts: Training the next generation of academy CEOs What’s being done to develop the next generation of trust leaders? Schools Week investigates… Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Attendance Exclusive Bigger absence fines won’t solve the problem, attendance tsar admits Rob Tarn speaks to Schools Week about his plans for the new role Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Teacher pay Exclusive DfE raided capital coffers for £250m towards teacher pay grant Funding also came from tutoring underspend and 16 to 19 cash, but DfE refuses to give more details Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Schools Heads and teachers working longer despite workload push Key government workforce survey reveals longer working weeks, less job satisfaction and more anxiety Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth and Jack Dyson 2y Teacher pay Keegan calls for return to ‘more sustainable’ teacher pay rises Education secretary tells teacher pay body that schools only have 1.2 per cent headroom in budgets Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y SEND Struggling council gets first SEND ‘improvement adviser’ John Coughlan, who is also a commissioner in Birmingham, will advise Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Attendance The 10 new attendance rules schools need to know about Ministers publish new guidance that will become statutory from September Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Attendance Don’t give pupils time off for protests, new school guidance says Clarity comes after Gillian Keegan said ‘missing school for activism is unacceptable’ John Dickens 2y John Dickens 2y Sponsored post Sponsored The big payroll question: in-house vs outsourcing Should you run payroll in-house, or should you outsource? SWAdvertorial 2y IRIS 2y Schools Number of children ‘missing education’ rises a quarter 117,000 children were not registered at a school and not receiving a suitable education elsewhere at some point last… Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Attendance Absence fines rise to £80 and daily data mandatory from September Penalties for unauthorised absence will hit £80, and all schools will have to join attendance tracker scheme Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 1,001 Older