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Social Mobility Commission to relaunch with £2m research budget

Ministers have allocated £2 million in research funding to the rejuvenated Social Mobility Commission, a year after all of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Inspectors will spend more time in schools during short inspections, Spielman tells MPs

The head of Ofsted has sought to reassure MPs that inspectors will soon spend more time on site during…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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New DfE research shows ‘lasting negative impact’ on attainment of children in need

Pupils known to social services lag far behind their less vulnerable peers at GCSE, even if they are no…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Medway school mulls single-gender primary extension

A girls’ secondary school in Kent wants to add single-gender primary provision on its site. If the move goes…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE to advise teachers on how to speak to vulnerable pupils

Teachers will get advice on “adapting how they speak” to pupils who have been in contact with social services…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Domed: The free school facing funding axe

A free school stuck in temporary accommodation – including running its canteen from an inflatable dome – for the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Practise what you preach on SEND, Ofsted told

A literacy charity has praised Ofsted for its “unprecedented” intervention on behalf of pupils with special educational needs and…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Councils urged to claw back cash as ‘excess’ school surpluses top £500m

Councils are being urged to claw back cash from schools holding “excess” surpluses – as new figures show the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Flagship National Citizen Service under fire for £1m-a-year offices

The government’s flagship National Citizen Service trust has been slammed after its rent ballooned by more than ten-fold to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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ESFA names 9 organisations to roll out £2.3m cost-cutting consultant expansion

The government has named the nine organisations that will recruit and manage a new raft of cost-cutting consultants to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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John Tomsett will return to Huntington School after misconduct inquiry

A leading headteacher found not guilty of unacceptable professional conduct over a sexual relationship with a former pupil will…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Trust praised by ministers tops suspensions tables in Ofsted’s areas of concern

An academy trust praised by ministers tops the fixed-term exclusions tables in four authorities that concern Ofsted Exclusions divide…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg