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Coronavirus: Aldi joins national free school meal voucher scheme

The supermarket chain Aldi has joined the government’s national free school meals voucher scheme. Vicky Ford, the children’s minister,...

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Coronavirus: School attendance around 1%, finds DfE analysis

Around 1 per cent of pupils are attending school under the coronavirus lockdown, new data from the Department for...

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Coronavirus: Struggling academies offered help from resource management advisers

Academies in financial difficulty as a result of the coronavirus pandemic may be offered help from the government’s cost-cutting...

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Coronavirus: Schools will get ‘proper notice’ before they reopen, says Williamson

Schools will get “proper notice” before they reopen so they are “able to prepare” for the return of pupils,...

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Coronavirus: DfE to provide free laptops for disadvantaged year 10s

The government will provide free laptops and tablets for disadvantaged year 10s and other vulnerable pupils to help them...

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Coronavirus: Thousands of pupils with ‘no recourse to public funds’ to get free school meals

Children usually denied free school meals because of their parents’ immigration status have been granted temporary eligibility during the...

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DfE appoints Nick Timothy as non-executive director

Nick Timothy, a former New Schools Network director who served as chief of staff to prime minister Theresa May,...

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Coronavirus: DfE confirms August results days, abandoning ‘end of July’ deadline

GCSE and A-level results days will be in August this year, the government has announced, seemingly abandoning an aim...

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Margaret Greenwood appointed shadow schools minister

Former secondary school English teacher Margaret Greenwood has been appointed as shadow schools minister in Sir Keir Starmer’s first...

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