News Exclusive Girls school holds off negative Ofsted report with legal threats A Kent school that managed to suppress an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report for eight months by threatening legal action has… Alix Robertson 7y Alix Robertson 7y News Lack of understanding hampers heads’ ability to help pupils with mental health School leaders’ lack of understanding of counselling and psychotherapy is making it difficult for them to commission mental health… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Pupils with certificate signed by a Catholic priest can get school place priority Catholic schools can continue to accept a certificate signed by a priest as proof of pupils’ faith when giving… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News St Neots Learning Partnership issued with pre-termination warning notice An academy trust in Cambridgeshire has been warned it faces closure over “unacceptably low” standards at one of its… Alix Robertson 7y Alix Robertson 7y News Councils ‘not confident’ school admission rules are legal Eight local councils are not confident that schools in their area have lawful admissions arrangements, according to the Office… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Government confirms free school meals eligibility under universal credit The government will proceed with its plans to change the threshold for free school meals eligibility under universal credit,… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Questions over training and pay for school mental health leads Schools are still none the wiser on the new mental health “leads” after it emerged the government is yet… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Performance data on EAL pupils is ‘profoundly misleading’, warns EPI Attainment scores for children with English as an additional language (EAL) are “profoundly misleading” and “distorted”, according to a… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive Ministers under pressure on funding for PSHE lessons Ministers are under increasing pressure to say whether they will make personal, social, health and economics (PSHE) lessons compulsory,… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Zero-tolerance behaviour policies exclude more vulnerable children, MPs told Increases in exclusions are being driven by “shaming” school behaviour policies backed by the Department for Education, experts have… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News SENCO forum is back up – but only for some The National SENCO Forum has been partially restored nearly three months after it was taken offline by the Department… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News LKMCo: ‘Give schools £10k per vulnerable pupil to stop exclusions’ Schools should get a large cash windfall to help them support pupils at risk of exclusion, a leading education… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y Newer 1 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 979 Older
