Schools should ‘obsess’ about attendance, says children’s commissioner Report from Dame Rachel de Souza calls for better support for school counselling and improved intervention after exclusions
Infant free school meals funding rate to rise by just 7p Nadhim Zahawi says increase is ‘because we know more can be done in the face of rising costs”‘
Paul Smith to leave Future Academies for White Horse job Academy leader was first RSC to quit for a job in the sector, joining a minister’s trust
Government food strategy shelves most schools recommendations Ministers ignore calls to raise free school meals earnings threshold and bring in new accreditation requirements for schools
AQA apologises over GCSE physics advance info error England’s largest exam board will award full marks to all pupils for question about circuits in higher tier paper
Harris Federation pops to Dunelm for new (vice) chair Furniture giant director Sir Will Adderley has joined the board of the 51-school trust
Holiday free school meals support runs thin as funding dries up Voucher schemes that continued after the pandemic are beginning to be shelved as government funding becomes more stretched
Former RSC John Edwards is new DfE academies tsar Interim funding boss will oversee government schools policy in powerful new role
Schools place 10k Ukrainian pupils, but ‘sizeable number’ haven’t applied Zahawi says government ‘can do better’ as first official stats suggest thousands of refugee pupils still not in education