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Safeguarding in schools: staying on top of school monitoring in the new academic year

With the rise in bullying, vaping, and security threats, each school must act to create a secure environment that…

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Politics

Helen Hayes elected education committee chair

SEND reform, child poverty and the school curriculum are on Hayes’s agenda

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

ESFA to close as regions group take over school finance oversight

Education and Skills Funding Agency bites the dust as regions group take on bigger finance role

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Recruitment and retention

EEF projects to probe whether flexible working boosts retention

Research projects will also investigate the impact of flexible schemes on pupils

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
SATs

Primary school disadvantage gap narrows

But the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better-off peers remains above pre-pandemic levels

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Revealed: The three candidates for education committee chair

Two former children’s minister and disability rights campaigner compete for influential job

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Politics

Phillipson faces first education questions from MPs

SEND and private VAT plan dominate the schools agenda during Commons exchange

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Schools face ‘long slog’ to resolve enduring Covid challenges

‘Concerted action’ needed as secondaries face reading challenge and primaries battle lack of early development

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Solutions

Trusts target sixth formers in recruitment drive

Schools turn to homegrown talent in the face of severe teacher shortages and difficulties spending apprenticeship levy funding

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
SEND

SEND: Two in five EHCP decisions took more than 6 months

It comes as MPs warn ministers of desperate situations in their constituencies

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ofsted enlists charities’ help as it plans inclusion ‘criterion’

Leaders welcome focus on inclusion, but warn against creating ‘perverse incentives’ for schools

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment and retention

Pledge for 6,500 new teachers may not be delivered for years

Special unit assembled in DfE to work on Labour’s manifesto commitment, but concern grows over speediness of plan

Jack Dyson
Lucas Cumiskey and Jack Dyson