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 1y Jack Dyson 1y 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 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Ofsted Leaders divided over Labour plan for Ofsted trust inspections Labour wants Ofsted to inspect trusts as well as individual schools Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y 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 1y Jack Dyson 1y 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 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y 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 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y 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 1y Jack Dyson 1y 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 1y Samantha Booth 1y 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 1y Jessica Hill 1y 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 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y 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 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Recruitment and retention Teaching workforce grows by just 259 as recruitment stalls Almost as many teachers left the profession as entered it last year Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Newer 1 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 979 Older
