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
Sponsored post

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