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
Schools

‘Elite’ Star and Eton sixth forms reveal ‘clearing house’ careers role

Partnership between academy trust and top private school also opens new ‘think and do’ tank

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

Trusts urge DfE to launch independent schools regulator

CST adds voice to calls for independent body ‘with same legal standing as Ofqual’ and accountable to parliament

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Reception baseline test: Partial move to digital delayed

Standards and Testing Agency had planned to move some elements of the test on-screen from 2024

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Give parents termly window to request childcare, schools told

Ahead of the launch of the wraparound childcare programme, the government has published new guidance for schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson