Honours

‘I’m a champion for teachers’: How Mr P got his MBE

‘The influencer label lets people put you on a pedestal only to knock you off’

Freddie Whittaker
Ella Jessel
Academies

DfE faces big bill as secret settlement ends SchoolsCompany saga

Ministers face writing off a sizeable chunk of £2.8m owed back to the DfE, despite spending potentially millions to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND deficits to be kept off council balance sheets for two more years

SEND deficit 'statutory override' protecting potentially scores of councils from insolvency extended to 2028

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Behaviour

Trust legal challenge over child in isolation for half a year

But GORSE trust lawyers defend 'positive discipline' policy and say it improves behaviour

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Pupils could lose 12 teaching days a year due to global heating – report

Stark warning comes as data also suggests 59% of secondary school sites are at a 'high risk' of flooding

Freddie Whittaker
Ella Jessel and Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Infrastructure strategy pledges rebuilds for 250 more schools

And school and college maintenance funding to rise to £3bn a year by 2035

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Urgently set out plans to avoid SEND deficits ‘cliff-edge’, MPs tell DfE

Senior MP warns 'lack of action' suggests government is 'comfortable with the current state of affairs'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Watchdog extends probe into suspected school repairs ‘bid-rigging’

Competition and Markets Authority gathers more evidence in investigation into bids for the condition improvement fund

Freddie Whittaker
Ella Jessel
Academies

Secret settlement ends four-year SchoolsCompany legal battle

But it is not clear how much the trust has managed to claw back, because the settlement agreements are...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker