School buildings

DfE defunds school maintenance projects over ‘irregularities’

Department won't say how many or which schools are affected

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Budget 2024: Schools must be front of the funding queue

£1.4bn pledged by the chancellor relates to the existing rebuilding programme, which will only reach around 500 schools, warns...

Freddie Whittaker
Paul Whiteman
News

Risk ‘positive’ school improvement story ‘masks growing challenges’, says ex-DfE adviser

Sam Freedman says it's 'hard to see' how issues faced by schools can be fixed without investment

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

National insurance rise could be a £400m headache for schools

NFER adds its voice to calls for schools to be reimbursed as its analysis finds rise could add 'significant...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Mainstream could meet SEN needs of ‘tens of thousands’ more pupils

Government report finds 35,000 more pupils could have needs met in mainstream schools if system is improved

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Samantha Booth
School buildings

Repeated review of new special school buildings irks councils

DfE official says new government is 'working through urgent decisions and taking time to understand those'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

‘High bar’ for new estates improvement notices, says official

Senior civil servant issues clarification amid fears over new grounds for a notice to improve

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND: Suicide risk over EHC confusion, coroner warns

Warning follows an inquest into the death of Jennifer Chalkley, who was 17 when she took her own life...

Freddie Whittaker
Chaminda Jayanetti
News

Revealed: Ofsted publishes first school reports without headline grades

Fifteen schools inspected on September 24 have been issued with sub-judgment grades

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker