Ministers urge primaries to consider childminders on site Schools without space for full nursery told to consider teaming up with childminder to provide early years provision
Schools to face legal duty to record seclusion use New legislation would mean schools must record their use of non-disciplinary isolation and report it to parents
Thousands of retired teachers die before pensions row settled New data reveals the scale of the backlog in remedy cases facing the Teachers’ Pension Scheme’s embattled administrators Capita
This week’s best responses from our readers How to really drive efficiencies in schools, and what next after Ofsted legal action failure
Use common sense to deal with an angry AI-created legal request Subject access requests have become common but new legislation provides guidance on how to react sensibly, says Claire Archibald
There’s a sweet spot to be found in setting inspection consistency Achieving consistency is fraught with complexity, warns Steve Wren. Go too far and you can rinse insight from Ofsted inspections
Teachers must call pupils in, not out, on conspiracy theories While teachers need training in how to react, they should meet conspiratorial claims with curiosity, not judgment, says Helena Brothwell
Banning phones in schools is a lazy opt-out No one disagrees unfettered use of smartphones in schools is a bad thing, but indulging in a moral panic misses opportunities to prepare young people for life, says Hannah Carter
Why we’ve got ‘stuck’ schools all wrong Stuck schools often get a ‘hero’ leader, but there are much better solutions, argues Seamus Murphy