Mental health

32,000 children wait at least 2 years for mental health treatment

Children’s commissioner calls for early intervention as pupils wait ‘significant portion of their young lives’ for support

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Revealed: Councils slice £67m from school budgets to prop up SEND deficits

Four-fold increase in the school funding councils have shifted to fill high needs budget blackholes

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment and retention

DfE slashes secondary teacher recruitment targets

The government missed its targets for both primary and secondary last year

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
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Behaviour

GCSEs: Suspended pupils 12 months behind peers, research finds

Think tank’s research puts ‘a number on the suspension grades gap for the first time’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher pay

Holiday pay guidance reviewed amid fears schools could be left out of pocket

Law firms say mistake in government guidance could lead some schools to pay more than they should

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Transgender guidance

Schools sector sounds the alarm over transgender guidance

Calls for government to back schools in legal cases, fears guidance clashes with safeguarding rules and isn’t in child’s…

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Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Hinds says ‘all schools’ restrict phones, and 5 more key findings

Schools minister also says the ‘option’ of statutory mobile phone guidance remains

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Oak National Academy

Oak looking at quality standards for external curriculum resources

The government’s curriculum quango is exploring ‘thresholds’ providers would have to meet for it to signpost their resources

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ofsted: Give us £8.5m to deliver more in-depth inspections

Watchdog also warns declining inspector pay means it is losing staff to academy trusts

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Teacher training

Teaching hub claims DfE ‘favours larger trusts’

Three hubs lose their designation as high-profile trusts move in

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Academy trust development statements boost decline of standalone schools

Leaders fear smaller academy trusts ‘aren’t being allowed to grow’ in England’s left-behind areas

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson