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Child bereavement plans ‘urgently’ needed in schools

Schools should develop a bereavement plan “as a matter of urgency”, campaigners have urged, after research found that more…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
News, Politics

Children in need review: What the government has promised

The Department for Education has published its response to the children in need review today. Here are the key…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Social mobility will remain a priority for the next prime minister, insists Hinds

The government will continue to prioritise social mobility no matter who takes over as prime minister, the education secretary…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds: We’ll change admissions code to ‘accelerate’ school moves for children in need

The government will amend the school admissions code to “accelerate” the process of moving vulnerable children between schools, Damian…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EAL pupils outperform native speakers if they join schools early

Pupils with English as an additional language outperform native speakers if they join English schools at a young age,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Mental health training for new teachers

New teachers will be trained in how to spot the signs of mental health, it will be announced tomorrow….

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Keep ‘ethos’ of UTCs you take on, DfE orders academy trusts

The government has committed to ensuring academy trusts uphold the “ethos” of the university technical colleges they take on,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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UTC support charity paid £7k for Lord Baker’s personal secretary

The Baker Dearing Educational Trust spent nearly £7,000 funding a personal secretary for UTC architect Lord Baker, while raising…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Former academies minister faces accusation of cronyism

Former academies minister Lord Nash has been accused of “threatening to allow” an academy trust to “become financially unviable”…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Academy trust loses spending records after finance system switch

An academy trust appears to have lost access to financial data from longer than two years ago after changing…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Poorer pupils in coastal areas end up 3 grades behind at GCSE

Disadvantaged pupils who live in coastal areas achieve about three grades lower at GCSE than those living in non-coastal…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
News

Government gets tough on schools shortening weeks

The Department for Education (DfE) has been accused of having a “lack of understanding” of the financial pressures schools…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon