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Train all teachers in attachment issues, says trauma expert

School staff should all be trained to deal with emotional trauma among children in care, according to an expert….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teachers reduce hours and pay to manage workload

Teachers are being forced to go part-time in order to manage their workload, the Department for Education has admitted….

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Liverpool trusts face losing their only academies after poor performance

Two trusts in Liverpool may be forced to give up their only academies after they were warned over poor…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Police investigations continue into Bright Tribe and WCAT

Police officers are continuing their enquiries into whether criminal offences have been committed either by the Bright Tribe Trust…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Single academy trust told to improve or face closure

A single-academy trust in West Yorkshire has been warned it faces closure if it does not improve after Ofsted…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Damian Hinds faces first education committee grilling

The education secretary will take questions from MPs when he appears in front of the parliamentary education committee next…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Teach First opens leadership programme for struggling schools

Struggling schools can now apply for a leadership development programme run by Teach First, with funding available for specialist…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE to invite bids for wave of AP and special free schools

The government will invite bids for a special wave of free schools for excluded pupils and those with special…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Review launched into educational outcomes of children in need

A review by the Department for Education will examine and seek to improve the educational outcomes of children considered…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Major Catholic academisation plans held up by doubters

Plans by the Diocese of Westminster to convert over 200 schools into academies have hit a bump in the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Do the maths: Cost of new times-tables tests to top £5.2m

New times-tables tests for nine-year-olds will cost the Department for Education more than £5 million to implement, Schools Week…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Exclusions review and £4m ‘alternative provision fund’ unveiled

There will be a new £4 million alternative provision fund to support excluded pupils to return to mainstream schools….

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg