Schools Schools face struggle to plug the gaps in ‘bankrupt’ Birmingham School leaders warn councils making multi-million pound cuts to children’s service is a ‘sign that something is badly wrong’ Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Supply teachers Exclusive Supply teachers plan Post Office-style legal action to take down umbrella companies The National Supply Teachers Network to take group litigation over unlawful salary reductions and missing holiday pay Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y School funding ‘Sizeable minority’ of academy trusts ‘vulnerable’ as pupil numbers fall Analysis finds hundreds of primary-only or majority trusts could be in financial jeopardy Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Academies Exclusive Academy trust top slicing is on the up (but do schools get better deal?) As two trusts top-slice almost 10%, chiefs say running services in-house saves time and money for heads Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y School funding Exclusive ‘Severe hardship’ as thousands of schools get 0.5% funding rise Academy trust body requests emergency funding following government’s reduction in minimum per-pupil funding levels Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Exams Ministers mull scrapping Gove’s Russell Group school metric It follows calls from a House of Lords committee to review destination measures Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Schools More than 10,000 pupils ‘fall through the cracks’ – de Souza Children’s commissioner makes wide-ranging recommendations to make school system more ‘inclusive’ Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Home education Exclusive Rate of pupils leaving for home education doubles Poorer areas see some of the biggest rises, as more parents withdraw children because of unmet needs Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Teacher pay Unions express ‘frustration and disquiet’ after DfE pay evidence delayed Missed deadline comes after STRB remit letter was issued just days before Christmas Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Schools New legal duty on school staff to report child sexual abuse Home Office outlines new safeguarding requirement – but few details confirmed and no date for introduction yet Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Behaviour de Souza wants to check how many schools ban phones Children’s commissioner tells MPs she’d like to use her statutory powers to get clear picture of practice in schools Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Schools Pupils share food with classmates amid cost of living crisis Poll for the NEU finds 37% of children know someone who ‘sometimes does not have enough food to eat… Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 1,001 Older
