SEND

SEND: Suicide risk over EHC confusion, coroner warns

Warning follows an inquest into the death of Jennifer Chalkley, who was 17 when she took her own life…

Freddie Whittaker
Chaminda Jayanetti
News

SEND tribunal costs spiral to £13m

Record numbers of parents are appealing council refusals to issue EHCPs

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Diversity gap in academy trust top jobs fails to narrow

Number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) leaders remains static

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Revealed: Ofsted publishes first school reports without headline grades

Fifteen schools inspected on September 24 have been issued with sub-judgment grades

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE plots law change to speed up school-based nurseries

Ministers want first new provision in surplus primary school buildings to open next year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

LEGO play professor among new DfE science council appointees

Cambridge Professor Paul Ramchandani among 12 experts appointed to provide ‘advice and challenge’ on issues like SEND and mental…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


CEO pay

37 trusts named and shamed in new ‘outlier’ CEO pay crackdown

But the MAT with England’s best-paid CEO – who earns almost £500k a year – isn’t one of them

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Exams

Deadline for results checking service extended after tech issue

New data service hit by technical problems in the first year it has been moved back in-house to the…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

6 key school findings from biggest annual parent survey

Worrying findings on school absences, home education and children feeling unsafe at school

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Phillipson urges ‘patience’ on SEND reforms

Education secretary adds she is looking at how to help mainstream schools run their own special needs provision

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

DfE to review ‘complicated’ school maintenance funding system

‘We know there’s room for improvement’, admits senior civil servant

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Revealed: The 125 leaders in the running for CST policy group

The elected group will draw on leaders from across England and give feedback on policy issues facing academies

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson