Academies

Top of the trusts: Training the next generation of academy CEOs

What’s being done to develop the next generation of trust leaders? Schools Week investigates…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Attendance

Bigger absence fines won’t solve the problem, attendance tsar admits

Rob Tarn speaks to Schools Week about his plans for the new role

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher pay

DfE raided capital coffers for £250m towards teacher pay grant

Funding also came from tutoring underspend and 16 to 19 cash, but DfE refuses to give more details

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Heads and teachers working longer despite workload push

Key government workforce survey reveals longer working weeks, less job satisfaction and more anxiety

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Jack Dyson
Teacher pay

Keegan calls for return to ‘more sustainable’ teacher pay rises

Education secretary tells teacher pay body that schools only have 1.2 per cent headroom in budgets

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Struggling council gets first SEND ‘improvement adviser’ 

John Coughlan, who is also a commissioner in Birmingham, will advise Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Attendance

The 10 new attendance rules schools need to know about

Ministers publish new guidance that will become statutory from September

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Don’t give pupils time off for protests, new school guidance says

Clarity comes after Gillian Keegan said ‘missing school for activism is unacceptable’

John Dickens
John Dickens
Sponsored post

The big payroll question: in-house vs outsourcing

Should you run payroll in-house, or should you outsource?

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Schools

Number of children ‘missing education’ rises a quarter

117,000 children were not registered at a school and not receiving a suitable education elsewhere at some point last…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Absence fines rise to £80 and daily data mandatory from September

Penalties for unauthorised absence will hit £80, and all schools will have to join attendance tracker scheme

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Exam paper cyber attack investigation hits dead end

Two arrested stood down from bail as ‘no further evidence’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth