AP

Internal AP risks becoming ‘costly holding pens’, report warns  

Lack of guidance and oversight of in-school AP highlighted in new report that aims to codify good practice

John Dickens
Ella Jessel
Ofsted

Ofsted: Unions consider asking leaders to quit as inspectors

Leadership unions tell Ofsted they will take the ‘unprecedented step’ unless watchdog changes course over inspection plans

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

‘Delay new Ofsted inspections until September 2026’, demand unions

Leaders of four unions call for Bridget Phillipson to intervene over plans that will create ‘wholly unacceptable pressures on…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Movers and Shakers

Movers and Shakers: AEP, HFL Education, Odyssey and Extol trusts

This week’s movers and shakers include a taekwondo enthusiast, a former football coach and a committed girlguider

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Honours

‘I’m a champion for teachers’: How Mr P got his MBE

‘The influencer label lets people put you on a pedestal only to knock you off’

Freddie Whittaker
Ella Jessel
Academies

DfE faces big bill as secret settlement ends SchoolsCompany saga

Ministers face writing off a sizeable chunk of £2.8m owed back to the DfE, despite spending potentially millions to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Academies

Trust says cost-cutters call to court schools is ‘misuse of funds’

School resource management advisers urged the Elliot Foundation to ‘proactively’ grow its ranks

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

SEND deficits to be kept off council balance sheets for two more years

SEND deficit ‘statutory override’ protecting potentially scores of councils from insolvency extended to 2028

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Exam boards consider ‘action’ over social media predictions

A quarter of teachers say they have heard of pupils buying so-called ‘predicted’ papers

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Recruitment

Teacher quality warning over DfE recruitment boost plea

Letter seen by Schools Week shows DfE top boss asked teacher trainers to consider more offers, but providers have…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Behaviour

Trust legal challenge over child in isolation for half a year

But GORSE trust lawyers defend ‘positive discipline’ policy and say it improves behaviour

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Pupils could lose 12 teaching days a year due to global heating – report

Stark warning comes as data also suggests 59% of secondary school sites are at a ‘high risk’ of flooding

Freddie Whittaker
Ella Jessel and Lydia Chantler-Hicks