Schools Exclusive £900k scheme offers ‘equal access to chess in schools’ Between 350 and 450 schools across all nine regions of the UK will take part Esmé Kenney 5d Esmé Kenney 5d Politics Live blog from the NASUWT and NEU conferences The NEU is gathering in Brighton this week, while the NASUWT will assemble in Birmingham on Friday Freddie Whittaker 5d Lydia Chantler-Hicks and Freddie Whittaker 5d Politics SEND and the far-right on the NEU conference agenda Around 1,500 NEU members will gather in Brighton from Monday to Thursday Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5d Schools Three primary free schools to go ahead after appeals Meanwhile six cancelled special free school projects have been appealed Samantha Booth 1w Samantha Booth 1w Inclusion We ARE consulting on SEND appeals, insists DfE Lawyers ask for an ‘urgent explanation’ after conflicting messages on SEND tribunal Ruth Lucas 1w Ruth Lucas 1w Academies Exclusive The teachers with a 24-hour commute Major trust partners with tropical island’s only secondary to send staff on ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ secondment Jack Dyson 1w Jack Dyson 1w Schools Cuts to Prevent staff considered by Kent as funding reduced Reform-run Kent council tells schools it may lose their Prevent education officer posts Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1w Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1w Schools Academies lobby pension fund chiefs over ‘unfair’ extra payments West Yorkshire academy chains believe they are paying millions more than local authority schools Jack Dyson 1w Jack Dyson 1w Inclusion Exclusive Councils head to court over £4.5m in special school fees Wandsworth council has launched legal action against Kent over a school it ran in the county Ruth Lucas 1w Ruth Lucas 1w Inclusion Whitehall to leverage capital cash to force council mainstream focus Town halls will be required to sign a new ‘memorandum of understanding’ on how to spend £860m of high… Samantha Booth 1w Samantha Booth 1w News Attendance gap for poorer pupils reaches all-time high Overall absence and persistent absence rates see improvements, but severe absence remains stubborn Ruth Lucas 1w Ruth Lucas 1w Schools Third of parents say they take children on term-time holidays New Public First report also reveals regional divides in attitudes to absence and behaviour Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1w Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1w Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1,033 Older
