Ofsted

Labour’s Ofsted plans ‘logical evolution’, says Spielman

Chief inspector says it’s ‘completely rational for a potential alternative government to be thinking about things like this’

Freddie Whittaker
Billy Camden and Freddie Whittaker
Academies

The academy trust CEO pay outliers

Most trusts under government scrutiny froze or slashed pay last year – but others handed out significant rises

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Teacher training

Snubbed teacher training providers get top Ofsted reports

Leaders left ‘struggling to explain’ why they will stop providing service to schools next year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Amy Walker
SEND

Council SEND deficit bailouts hit £1bn as 20 more issued

Councils told to make mainstream schools more inclusive in new wave of handouts

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Almost 2 in 5 poorer pupils were persistently absent last year

Children eligible for free school meals were more than twice as likely to miss 10 per cent or more…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Treasury expects schools to charge parents for wraparound childcare

Government tells Schools Week it expects ‘most schools will be able to deliver the provision self-sufficiently’ from 2026

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Politics, Schools

Budget 2023: Hunt wants all primaries to provide ‘wraparound’ childcare

New ‘ambition’ that all children are able to access 8am to 6pm childcare provision in school by 2026, but…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted wants experienced school leader to take over from Spielman

Job advert for the £165k role states it is an ‘important time’ to lead the watchdog and ’embed’ the…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

DfE will consider new requirement to teach about suicide prevention

Minister: Mental health will be ‘priority area’ in the upcoming review of relationships, sex and health education guidance

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Oak National Academy

Revealed: Oak names new curriculum partners

But contracts to create lessons for two subjects not awarded as bids ‘did not meet high quality bar’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher strikes

Strikes: DfE ups the ante with warning teachers could miss a deal

Unions fear divide and conquer approach after general secretaries are called-in separately

Freddie Whittaker
John Dickens and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group

Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth