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Schools forced to collect food for hungry pupils, warns UN adviser

The costs of austerity in the UK have fallen “disproportionately” on children, leaving them hungry at school and forcing…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Sponsors found for last Bright Tribe and ALAT schools

The government has confirmed the names of trusts taking over the remaining schools from the troubled Bright Tribe trust…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Hefty bills for the government as more academy trusts close

Soaring numbers of academy trusts are being wound up, and many are collapsing with deficits of millions of pounds,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government agency warns tutoring companies they are flouting the law

The bosses of dozens of tutoring companies have been threatened with imprisonment after the government launched a clampdown on…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools face cash clawbacks after overpredicting pupil numbers

Hundreds of schools that overestimated their pupil numbers last year will have to repay £33 million in funding to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE won’t say how many new breakfast clubs it has created

The government will not confirm how many new school breakfast clubs have been set up under a £26 million…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Progress scores plummet as trusts ditch ECDL

Progress scores in a trust founded by the academies minister plummeted after a fast-track qualification was removed from government…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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WCAT broke funding rules a year before its collapse, DfE review finds

The doomed Wakefield City Academy Trust broke government funding rules 16 times in 2016, according to a review of…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE ‘minded to terminate’ funding of four academies

Four schools in the east midlands have been warned they face losing their funding and being rebrokered to new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds aide quits over Brexit deal

Anne-Marie Trevelyan, an aide to education secretary Damian Hinds and his fellow education ministers, has resigned over the government’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Council chiefs report 27% rise in home educated pupils

The number of home educated pupils rose by 27 per cent this year, with many more likely to be “hidden…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE urged to launch independent review into Careers and Enterprise Company

The government has been urged to commission an independent review into whether the Careers and Enterprise Company is doing…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg