Election 2024 Lib Dems manifesto 2024: All the schools policies 26 pledges include above-inflation school funding boosts, putting arts subjects in the EBacc and upping capital funding by £1.9bn Freddie Whittaker 11mo Freddie Whittaker 11mo School funding Village primary gets a second ‘golden ticket’ to deck out its new home The small school has been handed the keys to a 400-capacity building after a planned free school was abandoned Jack Dyson 11mo Jack Dyson 11mo Election 2024 Labour will convert ‘spare’ primary classrooms into 3,334 nurseries Policy would cost around £140 million and create 100,000 childcare places, party says Freddie Whittaker 11mo Freddie Whittaker 11mo Ofsted Leaders divided over Labour plan for Ofsted trust inspections Labour wants Ofsted to inspect trusts as well as individual schools Lucas Cumiskey 11mo Lucas Cumiskey 11mo Schools Birmingham withdraws schools from £100m IT system Heads were unable to make financial plans as glitches left them waiting months to learn the size of their… Jack Dyson 11mo Jack Dyson 11mo School funding Two in three special schools face real-terms cuts, unions warn Special schools’ spending power is £419 million lower than it was in 2010 Freddie Whittaker 11mo Freddie Whittaker 11mo Recruitment and retention Thousands of state teachers switch to private sector More teachers have left state schools to work in the independent sector than vice versa in every year since… Lucas Cumiskey 11mo Lucas Cumiskey 11mo School buildings Investigation Councils still paying PFI bills for closed schools (but some can’t talk about it) Investigation exposes ongoing complexities of PFI deals, use of gagging clauses and how the DfE paid off contracts in… Jack Dyson 11mo Jack Dyson 11mo Mental health Study: Access to school counselling would ‘pay for itself’ in 10 years Counselling could help ‘missing middle’ of children who don’t meet mental health treatment thresholds, Public First study says Samantha Booth 11mo Samantha Booth 11mo SEND Exclusive Third of ‘safety-valve’ councils face ‘bankruptcy’ Local authorities receiving bailouts in exchange for savings plans still fear they won’t set balanced budgets Jessica Hill 11mo Jessica Hill 11mo Alternative provision Alternative provision placements soar to pre-pandemic levels New government statistics also show a rise in pupils places in AP because of mental health needs or behaviour… Freddie Whittaker 11mo Freddie Whittaker 11mo Wellbeing Friday afternoons off and a tea trolley: How one school is bucking the retention trend School bans after-work meetings and finishes at 1.40pm on Fridays, allowing staff to jet off on city breaks Lucas Cumiskey 11mo Lucas Cumiskey 11mo Newer 1 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 970 Older
