News

SEND ‘major issue’ and ‘irregular’ grants: 13 things we learned from DfE accounts

Document also reveal bumper pay rise for DfE top boss, payments to companies linked to ministers and growing cost...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Secondary pupil numbers may have peaked earlier than expected

DfE says lower long-term net migration 'likely to be a contributing factor' to recent drops in pupil numbers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Academy admission appeals cash cut ‘penalises successful schools’

DfE won't fund academies to fight appeals heard after October 31 of this year, it confirms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ministers review £320m PE and sport premium amid ‘patchy’ provision fears

Catherine McKinnell tells MPs government is considering a 'different approach' to boosting take-up of sport

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Relationships and sex education

Sex and relationships education: The main changes for 2026

No age limits, gender identity teaching ban dropped and primaries 'encouraged' to teach about same-sex parents - all you...

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Freddie Whittaker and Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Sex education guidance: DfE scraps Tories’ proposed age limits

Ban on teaching about the 'broader concept of gender identity' also removed, but schools told to teach 'the facts...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

400+ NEU staff to strike in dispute over restructure

Union accused of failing to hold 'meaningful consultation' over staff changes, but says offer of further negotiations ‘remains open’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

NPQs take-up collapses after government funding cut

Starts on qualifications for aspiring leaders fall by a third after most subsidies withdrawn

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Features

Profile: Josh MacAlister, MP for Whitehaven and Workington

Josh MacAlister isn’t wasting time. Weeks after becoming the MP for Whitehaven and Workington in Cumbria last July, the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker