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
Academies

The schools that fought off academy orders

Ministers have U-turned on forced academisation more than 50 times since 2016

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Home Office U-turn on blasphemy guidance

Department now ‘looking to draft new guidance’ after Quran incident

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies, ASCL Conference

Academy trust body instructed top lawyer over schools bill

Producing bill before regulatory review was completed was ‘huge legislative error’, says CST chief Leora Cruddas

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
ASCL Conference, Ofsted

Labour proposes ‘report card’ to replace Ofsted grades

Bridget Phillipson says schools deserve better ‘than a system that is high stakes for staff, but low information for…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
ASCL Conference, Exams

Ofqual chief would use exam conditions for coursework amid ChatGPT fears

Dr Jo Saxton says concern over AI cheating ‘reinforces the importance’ of exams

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth