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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
News

DfE plots law change to speed up school-based nurseries

Ministers want first new provision in surplus primary school buildings to open next year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

LEGO play professor among new DfE science council appointees

Cambridge Professor Paul Ramchandani among 12 experts appointed to provide 'advice and challenge' on issues like SEND and mental...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker