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SEND funding cut by 17% in three years, warns IPPR report

Funding for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has been slashed by more than a sixth, according to...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Let all teaching job applicants explore ‘flexible options’, says Hinds

All teaching job adverts should offer applicants the chance to explore flexible working options, the education secretary has said....

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Freddie Whittaker
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Next year’s school budgets are ‘not generous’ says DfE funding chief

School budgets for next year are “not generous”, the Department for Education’s head of funding has admitted. Tom Goldman,...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Parents could be prosecuted or fined for failing to register home-schooled children

Parents who fail to register their children as home-educated could face prosecution or a fine under new proposals set...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted downgrades dozens of ‘outstanding’ schools

Not one ‘outstanding’ school reinspected under a clampdown by Ofsted has retained its top rating. In December, the government...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Tory leadership race: What does it mean for education?

Following Theresa May’s announcement that she will quit as prime minister before the next stage of Brexit negotiations, speculation...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted: Just 23% of reinspected outstanding schools kept their grade

More than three quarters of ‘outstanding’ schools reinspected by Ofsted in the last four months of last year failed...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Councils wary of challenging ‘powerful’ academy CEOs over exclusions, warns Wilshaw

Councils have become “wary” of intervening with “powerful” academy trust CEOs over exclusions because they have been “marginalised” in...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Pooling school budgets ‘wasn’t as painful as you might think’, says academy trust boss

The leader of one of England’s largest academy trusts has revealed she was forced to pool her schools’ funding...

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Freddie Whittaker