RAAC

RAAC: Keegan pledges to rebuild schools ‘that need it’

Education secretary reveals 1,500 schools yet to have checks, and another 450 with suspected RAAC waiting for official assessments

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
RAAC

RAAC: Ministers prioritised free schools over safety – ex DfE boss

Former permanent secretary Jonathan Slater says Sunak is responsible for slashing school rebuilding programme while chancellor – despite ‘crumbly’…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Schools, uniform

Labour vows to limit branded school uniform items

Shadow education secretary says move would save families ‘hundreds of pounds’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
RAAC

RAAC: MPs to vote on releasing list of closed schools 

Labour to use binding Humble Address motion in the commons next week

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
RAAC

RAAC: Labour demands ‘urgent audit’ as thousands of schools unchecked

Call for action as potentially 8,000 sites yet to be checked for RAAC, while affected schools hire marquees and…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher strikes

NASUWT members to limit working time in industrial action

Action later this month includes refusing to do extra-curricular activities, lunch duties and weekend work in dispute over workload

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


RAAC

RAAC: Nick Gibb clarifies DfE funding for closed schools

The schools minister claimed RAAC funding guidance had been ‘misinterpreted’, but then confirmed revenue costs won’t be covered

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
MATs

Former AET boss Julian Drinkall to take over at GLF

Drinkall returns to the sector to take over from Jon Chaloner who will stand down at the end of…

John Dickens
John Dickens
RAAC

RAAC: 100 schools at risk of collapse ordered to close

Everything school leaders need to know after the government escalated its RAAC response

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Politics, SEND

David Johnston appointed children’s minister as Coutinho promoted

He becomes the seventh minister to oversee the important SEND reforms

John Dickens
John Dickens
RAAC

RAAC: Schools told to prepare pupil evacuation plans

Leaked documents show DfE staff are calling schools to ensure plans are in place to take RAAC buildings out…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Grammar Schools

Ministers intervene to delay grammar schools expansion plan

Council says changes will pave way to admit more pupils into its selective schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson