School funding

Earning the right to deprivation funding

How might ministers better target deprivation funding based on family income?

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Inclusion

Soaring cost of private provision revealed as ministers plan curbs

The findings of a Schools Week investigation come as the government gears up to rein in spending on private special schools

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Inclusion

Upheld SEND complaints rise 25% in a year

'These statistics expose the extent to which local authorities continue to fail children and young people with SEND'

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Inclusion

‘There is nothing left to cut’: The schools counting the cost of inclusion

Schools Week investigates how the current system punishes inclusive schools financially, with leaders facing making cutbacks to maintain current...

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Schools white paper

Will reforms fix the SEND funding crisis?

Councils may face a rise in requests for EHCPs to secure special school places ahead of the reforms

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Behaviour

Behaviour expert plays down hubs’ restorative practice trend

'The behaviour hubs actively encouraged schools to adopt greater levels of consistency, rigour and predictability'

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Behaviour

Attendance and behaviour hubs: 29 more lead schools revealed

Schools Week obtains list of additional lead schools, with several more due to be announced later this week

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Inclusion

Abu Dhabi-owned SEND school firm profits soar to £45m

Witherslack said more pupils in its independent special schools had helped deliver a 30 per cent profit boost

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
School funding

School budgets slide further into the red

Findings come as governors say budgets are now their biggest concern – with one in ten schools relying on...

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti