Inclusion DfE inclusion tsar to lead SEND expert panel Academy trust boss Tom Rees will co-chair a panel to create inclusion standards and new SEND ‘packages’ Ruth Lucas 2w Ruth Lucas 2w Inclusion New ‘inclusion strategies’: What schools need to know DfE fleshes out requirements for annual strategies that will attract £400m a year in funding Ruth Lucas 2w Ruth Lucas 2w Inclusion Some schools ‘actively discourage’ SEN support pupils, research warns Top performing schools are found to take less pupils with SEND and eligible for free school meals Ruth Lucas 2w Ruth Lucas 2w Schools More pupils report conspiracy theories and misinfo in school And four in five teachers report having had a pupil bring up a conspiracy theory with them Freddie Whittaker 2w Freddie Whittaker 2w Academies Exclusive David Ross trust braced for redundancies amid falling rolls Cuts loom at 36-school MAT after central team review failed to address funding reductions Jack Dyson 2w Jack Dyson 2w School funding More strikes ‘inevitable’ as trusts axe jobs to stay afloat Dozens of schools rocked by strike announcements over planned restructures dubbed ‘neither fair nor sustainable’ Jack Dyson 2w Jack Dyson 2w School funding ‘We’re not magicians’: Sixth forms’ fury over cash squeeze Leaders say funding gap could threaten their ability to offer a broad range of subjects and hold down class… Esmé Kenney 2w Esmé Kenney 2w Early years Revealed: 331 more school nurseries, but councils to take over programme From May, ‘councils, rather than schools’ will be invited to propose plans for new places Freddie Whittaker 2w Freddie Whittaker 2w Curriculum Ministers to explore developing ‘more formative assessments’ for oracy Schools minister believes oracy is ‘as foundational as numeracy, literacy and writing’, and that is not just ‘an add… Esmé Kenney 2w Esmé Kenney 2w Pay and conditions Exclusive Not Tata yet – pension scheme handover delayed again IT giant now due to take on the contract from Capita this October – a year later than planned Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2w Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2w Politics Journalists shut out of events with ministers and officials Reporters are being banned from conferences where key public servants will speak Samantha Booth 2w Samantha Booth 2w Politics NEU: Teachers’ shift to Greens a ‘wake-up call’ to Labour Daniel Kebede also warns Reform UK would ‘make education a real hostile place for children who are LGBT, black,… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2w Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2w Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1,033 Older