Mental health

Thousands on waiting lists as trusts struggle to foot mental health bill

Schools have increasingly sought to fund more support themselves

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Mental health

‘Left to rot’: The families on the edge of the mental health crisis

‘It’s a constant battle to get help’

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Academies

Harris looks set to take over troubled East London Science School

Trust and school are well-known for high-profile political connections

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Councils cut primary school places as baby boom flattens

Pupil numbers are expected to fall by around 300,000 over the next five years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Mental health

Schools pick up the pieces as suicidal kids turned away from CAMHS

Teachers are told to ‘keep them safe’ as schools are left to ‘plug the gap’

Samantha Booth
Jess Staufenberg and Samantha Booth
Mental health

Special schools ‘bursting at seams’ – but DfE doesn’t collect the data

Heads say the system is ‘completely overwhelmed’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Mental health

Special investigation: How collapsing mental health services are failing children

Four-month investigation reveals the devastating toll on families and schools

Samantha Booth
Jess Staufenberg and Samantha Booth
Schools

‘Elite’ sixth forms have fewer poor students, study finds

Ministers want more sixth forms that send pupils to top universities as part of ‘levelling-up’ agenda

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Eight become nine as DfE shakes up RSC regions

London to get new RSC and other areas redrawn to align regions with rest of government

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap

Gap for poorest pupils fails to improve since 2011

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

DfE says rising energy costs will have ‘relatively small impact’ on school budgets

Government has told leaders they can shoulder ‘cost pressures’ from recent funding rises

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables

Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won’t count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker