Budget 2024

Budget 2024: Most of £1bn SEND injection will plug deficits

Ten things schools need to know after Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget

Freddie Whittaker
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Budget 2024

Budget 2024: £2.3bn more for schools, including £1bn for SEND

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers first Labour budget in 14 years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

DfE defunds school maintenance projects over ‘irregularities’

Department won’t say how many or which schools are affected

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Revealed: The new education committee membership

11 MPs selected for influential committee that holds the Department for Education to account

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
News

Risk ‘positive’ school improvement story ‘masks growing challenges’, says ex-DfE adviser

Sam Freedman says it’s ‘hard to see’ how issues faced by schools can be fixed without investment

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Budget 2024

Budget 2024: £1.4bn for school rebuilding next year

Treasury says existing rebuilding programme cash will be £550m more than last year, but no word yet on school…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

National insurance rise could be a £400m headache for schools

NFER adds its voice to calls for schools to be reimbursed as its analysis finds rise could add ‘significant…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
community hubs

United Learning to launch charity to run community hubs

But country’s largest trust stresses the initiative won’t ‘take resource from teaching and learning’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Disadvantage

Investigation: Disadvantaged school leaders’ uphill battle

Calls for a review of disadvantage measures and support after analysis reveals full scale of challenge for leaders in…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
SEND

Mainstream could meet SEN needs of ‘tens of thousands’ more pupils

Government report finds 35,000 more pupils could have needs met in mainstream schools if system is improved

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Samantha Booth
Academies

Lilac Sky scandal: £3m of ‘contentious, irregular or improper’ payments revealed

Government investigation ‘outcome’ report comes eight years after intervention, but contains just three pages and few details

John Dickens
John Dickens
Free school meals

Proportion of poorer school pupils going on to university falls

Fall in the ‘progression rate’ of pupils eligible for free school meals is first since current records began in…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey