School funding

Cuts start to bite as DfE faces £1.5bn budget blackhole

Government cuts back governance, teacher development and training funding as pay bill looms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Supply teachers ‘second class citizens’ as pay stagnates

Pay concerns fuelling a shortage amid booming demand, union warns

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Interview

Geoff Barton: ‘I don’t want to be wheeled out as yesterday’s man’

Departing ASCL boss talks supporting heads through Covid, his new oracy commission, that pay dispute and looking forwards, not…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

£2.3m absence mentoring pilot reaches just half of target

And just half of those reached achieved improved attendance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academy converters can’t get £25k grant if they become a SAT

But trust body flags concern over capacity to manage ‘spike’ in applications before change comes into force

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

Ministers withhold £18m from five ‘safety valve’ councils

LAs’ SEND bailout agreements ‘subject to review’, as more councils agree deals totalling £230m

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Recruitment

Teacher training top-up courses slashed as DfE cuts costs

Funding to provide subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses cut to just five subjects from next month

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

‘Big Listen’: Pupils asked for views on how Ofsted can improve

‘Feedback will help us make sure we’re doing our job the best way we can,’ says watchdog chief

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
SEND

Two-thirds of special schools full or over capacity, new data shows

New data published after Schools Week investigations into bursting special school classrooms

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Sponsored post

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NPQs

Free NPQ scheme scaled back

£184m Covid recovery scheme will end this year, replaced by less generous offer that could train just a quarter…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Recruitment and retention

We need NHS-style long-term school workforce plan, says NIoT boss

Melanie Renowden wants to see education equivalent to health service’s 15-year recruitment and retention plan

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey