‘I’m a champion for teachers’: How Mr P got his MBE ‘The influencer label lets people put you on a pedestal only to knock you off’
DfE faces big bill as secret settlement ends SchoolsCompany saga Ministers face writing off a sizeable chunk of £2.8m owed back to the DfE, despite spending potentially millions to sue ex-trustees
SEND deficits to be kept off council balance sheets for two more years SEND deficit ‘statutory override’ protecting potentially scores of councils from insolvency extended to 2028
Trust legal challenge over child in isolation for half a year But GORSE trust lawyers defend ‘positive discipline’ policy and say it improves behaviour
Pupils could lose 12 teaching days a year due to global heating – report Stark warning comes as data also suggests 59% of secondary school sites are at a ‘high risk’ of flooding
Infrastructure strategy pledges rebuilds for 250 more schools And school and college maintenance funding to rise to £3bn a year by 2035
Urgently set out plans to avoid SEND deficits ‘cliff-edge’, MPs tell DfE Senior MP warns ‘lack of action’ suggests government is ‘comfortable with the current state of affairs’
Watchdog extends probe into suspected school repairs ‘bid-rigging’ Competition and Markets Authority gathers more evidence in investigation into bids for the condition improvement fund
Secret settlement ends four-year SchoolsCompany legal battle But it is not clear how much the trust has managed to claw back, because the settlement agreements are confidential