Politics

Use Covid-style measures during strikes, DfE tells schools

Government publishes updated guidance after NEU wins ballot for industrial action in England

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Tom Belger
Politics

NAHT strike ballot does not meet legal threshold

Leaders’ union considers re-balloting members after majority of those voting support action, but turnout falls short

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

NEU: Teachers in England schools vote to strike

Union announces seven days of teacher strike action in February and March

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

NASUWT union to ballot teachers again in pay dispute

Union tells ministers they are still in dispute over teachers’ pay despite failing to meet strike threshold last week

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

School vacancies up two-thirds on pre-pandemic 2019, data suggests

Figures shared with Schools Week show schools advertised more than 100,000 roles last year

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

Failed SEND councils could get four-year reprieve

Introduction of new SEND inspection framework means revisits clock has been reset

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Politics

It’s Kebede vs Sweeney in NEU general secretary election

Former president faces union’s deputy general secretary in election to replace Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

E-ACT appoints new chief executive

Tom Campbell made permanent boss at academy trust he has run on an interim basis

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Impact of £57m grant to boost maths take-up criticised

86 per cent of funding has gone to schools and just 14 per cent to colleges

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Schools

Teaching hopefuls asked for details of ‘any website you’re named on’

Safeguarding guidance states schools ‘should consider carrying out an online search’ on shortlisted candidates

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ofsted admits its complaints policy ‘isn’t working’

Officials have been asked to make the process more human and less bureaucratic

Freddie Whittaker
John Dickens and Amy Walker
Schools

Special schools bear brunt of recruitment crisis

One school has nearly two in five teaching posts staffed by agency staff or teaching assistants

Amy Walker
Amy Walker