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Home Office delayed free school meals eligibility checks

The Home Office prioritised checks on pupils’ immigration status over helping schools to identify migrant children in need of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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E-ACT insists it has ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to off-rolling after Ofsted findings

The sponsor of one of only two schools identified by Ofsted as potentially having off-rolled pupils has insisted it’s…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Spielman slams ‘extraordinary’ and ‘unhelpful’ labelling of exclusions data

The chief inspector of schools has backed calls for a shake-up of how exclusions are reported in national data,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Holland Park school warned over head’s £260k salary as minister writes to 28 trusts

A single-academy trust has been ordered by the government for a second time to justify the £260,000 annual pay…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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New qualifications ‘will keep teachers in schools’

Five new specialist qualifications aimed at opening up career opportunities outside the traditional school leadership route will keep experienced…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Landmark judicial review hands schools more power to challenge council SEND placements

An eight-year-old autistic boy with severe learning needs was denied specialist schooling for at least four months after a…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Quality of music education should affect a school’s Ofsted rating, says report

Failing to provide a high-quality music education should have an “adverse impact” on a school’s Ofsted rating, an influential…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ministers look to heads to ‘transform’ flexible working opportunities

The government wants headteachers to “transform” their approaches to flexible working, prompting concerns that thousands of extra teachers could…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Could new retention plan tackle ‘bursary tourism’?

The government plans to stagger trainee teacher bursary payments in a bid to keep staff in the classroom. Those…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Children’s commissioner to publish home education figures for every school

The children’s commissioner will publish figures for every school in England showing how many of their pupils withdraw to…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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DfE could lose ‘millions’ under faith academies plan

The government could lose millions in contributions towards capital funding if religious groups convert their schools into academies en-masse….

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Gibb calls for more attention on ‘oracy’ in knowledge-rich curriculum

The schools minister wants oracy to receive more attention from schools with knowledge-rich curricula, alongside the more traditional “three…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg