Movers and Shakers

Movers and Shakers: AEP, HFL Education, Odyssey and Extol trusts

This week’s movers and shakers include a taekwondo enthusiast, a former football coach and a committed girlguider

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Honours

‘I’m a champion for teachers’: How Mr P got his MBE

‘The influencer label lets people put you on a pedestal only to knock you off’

Freddie Whittaker
Ella Jessel
Academies

DfE faces big bill as secret settlement ends SchoolsCompany saga

Ministers face writing off a sizeable chunk of £2.8m owed back to the DfE, despite spending potentially millions to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Trust says cost-cutters call to court schools is ‘misuse of funds’

School resource management advisers urged the Elliot Foundation to ‘proactively’ grow its ranks

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

SEND deficits to be kept off council balance sheets for two more years

SEND deficit ‘statutory override’ protecting potentially scores of councils from insolvency extended to 2028

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Exam boards consider ‘action’ over social media predictions

A quarter of teachers say they have heard of pupils buying so-called ‘predicted’ papers

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Recruitment

Teacher quality warning over DfE recruitment boost plea

Letter seen by Schools Week shows DfE top boss asked teacher trainers to consider more offers, but providers have…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Behaviour

Trust legal challenge over child in isolation for half a year

But GORSE trust lawyers defend ‘positive discipline’ policy and say it improves behaviour

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Pupils could lose 12 teaching days a year due to global heating – report

Stark warning comes as data also suggests 59% of secondary school sites are at a ‘high risk’ of flooding

Freddie Whittaker
Ella Jessel and Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Inclusion

Call for ‘enforceable’ school inclusion framework and audits

Schools should follow ‘enforceable’ national inclusivity standards to ‘shape a system that works for everyone’, major FED report says

John Dickens
Ella Jessel
News

Infrastructure strategy pledges rebuilds for 250 more schools

And school and college maintenance funding to rise to £3bn a year by 2035

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Movers and Shakers

Paul Tarn set to leave Delta Academies Trust

Trust says recently-knighted leader to retire with ‘comprehensive succession plan’ in place

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson