Movers and Shakers

Movers and Shakers: Mercia trust, Baker Dearing, Impetus, IPPR

This week’s movers include someone who contributed to a No 1 hit, a Harry Potter film extra and a…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Tutoring

A ‘vibrant tutor market’? Providers wind down as NTP closes

Tutoring providers scale down as the flagship catch-up scheme closes

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Conflict questions as Labour moves to single regulator

Former official claims closing ESFA ‘bad news for transparency and fairness’, but others welcome the change

Jack Dyson
Freddie Whittaker
Academies, SEND

Schools look to SEND trusts over rising pupil need

Mainstream schools increasingly looking for ‘specialist help’ to deal with youngsters’ needs

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
GCSEs

Natural history GCSE stalls after official ‘block’

The proposed GCSE is one of a number of curriculum commitments currently up in the air post-election

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Music

£6m music pilot launched for disadvantaged children

Cash injection expected to help charity ‘supercharge’ existing music programme

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Recruitment and retention

The school giving teachers a lie-in to boost retention

Teachers should be treated like ‘elite athletes’ who need rest from an ‘exhausting’ job, head believes

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
SEND

Pause in Ofsted SEND inspections ‘opens accountability gap’

Suspending monitoring visits to councils with widespread failings ‘sets off alarm bells’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Turnaround academy trust stops turnarounds (for now)

Outwood Grange moves away from ‘central view’ of education – and will even pause taking on the toughest schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Children’s commissioner orders compulsory survey of schools

Dame Rachel de Souza uses statutory powers to ask schools about their provision and barriers to supporting pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted: The schools already drawing up their own report cards

Several schools are ahead of Ofsted and drawing up their own report cards. Schools Week investigates

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Politics

Gamekeeper turns poacher as Hayes takes committee chair

Former shadow children’s minister talks Ofsted, recruitment and retention, funding and holding her former colleagues to account

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker