Movers and Shakers Movers and shakers: Asare, Sameja, Wharf, Baddeley, Van Walwyk, Glackin, Jerrim Professional actress, keen walker and leader who once worked as a baker, greengrocer, cook and roadie among those with… Schools Week Reporter 2y Schools Week Reporter 2y Politics Lib Dems manifesto 2024: All the schools policies 26 pledges include above-inflation school funding boosts, putting arts subjects in the EBacc and upping capital funding by £1.9bn Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y School funding Village primary gets a second ‘golden ticket’ to deck out its new home The small school has been handed the keys to a 400-capacity building after a planned free school was abandoned Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Politics Labour will convert ‘spare’ primary classrooms into 3,334 nurseries Policy would cost around £140 million and create 100,000 childcare places, party says Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Ofsted Leaders divided over Labour plan for Ofsted trust inspections Labour wants Ofsted to inspect trusts as well as individual schools Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Schools Birmingham withdraws schools from £100m IT system Heads were unable to make financial plans as glitches left them waiting months to learn the size of their… Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y School funding Two in three special schools face real-terms cuts, unions warn Special schools’ spending power is £419 million lower than it was in 2010 Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Recruitment and retention Thousands of state teachers switch to private sector More teachers have left state schools to work in the independent sector than vice versa in every year since… Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y School buildings Investigation Councils still paying PFI bills for closed schools (but some can’t talk about it) Investigation exposes ongoing complexities of PFI deals, use of gagging clauses and how the DfE paid off contracts in… Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Wellbeing Study: Access to school counselling would ‘pay for itself’ in 10 years Counselling could help ‘missing middle’ of children who don’t meet mental health treatment thresholds, Public First study says Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Inclusion Exclusive Third of ‘safety-valve’ councils face ‘bankruptcy’ Local authorities receiving bailouts in exchange for savings plans still fear they won’t set balanced budgets Jessica Hill 2y Jessica Hill 2y Inclusion Alternative provision placements soar to pre-pandemic levels New government statistics also show a rise in pupils places in AP because of mental health needs or behaviour… Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 1,029 Older
