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DfE launches national buying service to help schools deliver ‘value for money’

The government is set to launch a new ‘Get Help Buying’ service this autumn to ensure schools are “efficiently…

James Carr
James Carr
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1 in 8 LA-maintained schools now in deficit as primaries’ financial health worsens

One in eight local authority-maintained schools were in deficit in the last financial year, up from less than one…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revealed: The 77 schools set to run new £65m ‘teaching school hubs’

Seventy-seven schools have been selected to run 81 new teaching school hubs across England, with £65 million in funding…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Consultation launched to ensure high needs funding awarded ‘fairly’ as councils struggle

The government has launched a consultation to ensure high needs cash is dished out as “fairly as possible” as…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Covid testing in schools: DfE aligns advice with NHS following confusion

The Department for Education (DfE) is no longer encouraging school staff to undergo Covid testing within 90 days of…

James Carr
James Carr
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Department for Education looking to spend £4m on catch-up resources

The Department for Education is looking to spend nearly £4m on “free in-class and catch-up curriculum” resources to support…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


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Sir Kevan Collins Q&A: Covid innovations can drive catch-up challenge

The new ‘education recovery’ commissioner believes Covid innovations such as virtual classes can be used to extend the school…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Gibb: ‘Challenge’ schools with low EBacc entries to address ‘unequal opportunities’

Schools with low EBacc entries must be “challenged” to address “unequal opportunities” in the system, Nick Gibb has said….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£500 bill for orange juice: Trust rapped for spend at ‘luxury’ spa hotel and ‘high fashion’ mag

An academy trust that opened from scratch with 10 schools has been rapped for spending thousands of pounds on…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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School attendance rises to 16% as key worker numbers leap

School attendance has climbed again to around 16 per cent, with 23 per cent of primary pupils now going…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘All ideas on the table’ says catch-up tsar as Johnson won’t rule out extending school term

All ideas to address lost learning should be “on the table”, the government’s new catch-up tsar has said, after…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Lost learning expert group scrapped by DfE before it’s even set up

A promise to set up an expert group to look at solutions for uneven lost learning across the country…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth