Academies

Turnaround trusts say tide turning on recruiting converters

Wealth of lesson plans, specialist teaching teams and career paths helping to convince ‘good’ schools into turnarounds, CEOs say

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

NPQs not up to scratch for increasingly ‘complex’ headship

Development programmes for heads and executive leaders lack the ‘full extent of skills and knowledge’ needed, report warns

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academise so LAs can’t close you, diocese tells schools

Leaked papers show ‘key reason’ for diocese’s plans was to move school decisions away from councils

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

School wasn’t gaming as it can do ‘pretty much anything’, court hears

High court judge criticises Ofsted for ‘entirely erroneous understanding’ of ‘gaming’ as city technical college downgraded to ‘good’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Schools

Competition watchdog pulled into MIS dispute, again

Turf war between largest school management information system providers takes another twist

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Mental health

Child mental health support pledge looks in doubt

Presentation seen by Schools Week shows a key pledge was a third below target with just five months to…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Schools

Inclusion tool to give ‘balanced view’ of school performance

EPI tool allows councils and academy trusts to be compared based on how inclusive they are

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Childcare

Wraparound childcare: what primary schools need to know

DfE sets out how schools should deliver its new childcare ‘expectation’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher strikes

Largest trust would shun ‘inflammatory’ new strike laws

Minimum service levels ‘likely to be self-defeating in practice’, warns United Learning

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

RAAC: 119 schools to be rebuilt, 110 will get removal grants

234 schools have now been identified as having confirmed RAAC

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted to examine how SEND pupils are prepared for adulthood

Inspectors will visit a ‘small number of areas’ to look at a ‘particular aspect of SEND in-depth’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
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