RAAC

RAAC: DfE lists 174 schools now affected

Government reveals 27 more schools have had RAAC identified in their buildings

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted: 7 key findings from its geography subject report

Despite many improvements in geography teaching, Ofsted noted issues including a lack of staff and fieldwork

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Business leaders should be on workload taskforce, says ISBL

The body representing school business leaders said it did ‘not understand’ why they’d been left out

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Delayed DBS checks leave teachers waiting in the wings

Target to process four in five enhanced checks for education staff missed in August, figures show

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Failed construction company leaves DfE £2m out of pocket

Documents filed by administrators show the DfE was owed £2m when Caledonian Modular collapsed

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Workload

Revealed: The 14 sector leaders on DfE’s workload reduction taskforce

Government also promises to update 2019 recruitment strategy, and new toolkit for flexible working

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter


Schools

Adjudicator backs council’s objections to trust’s year 7 intake cut

Case is another example of the disconnect between councils and trusts in school admissions system

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Grammar school told to stop demanding tenancy documents 

Rules to crackdown on admissions fraud asked for papers from ‘approved letting agent’ to ‘ensure parents had link to…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Teachers wrongly told they’d failed to make pension payments

One teacher said the bungle caused a ‘great deal of upset and unnecessary worry’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
RAAC

Feature: The RAAC school that moved into Georgian wedding venue

14-hour days, classroom tables in gazebos and scout huts: the inside story of dealing with crumbly concrete

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

Kent’s mainstream SEND plans ‘put pupils’ chances at risk’

Council’s new target for 80 per cent of pupils with EHCPs in mainstream schools criticised

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

30k primary pupils’ data may be at risk after Capita cyber attack

Dark web monitored for the information after company was targeted in March

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth