Author: Freddie Whittaker

Schools in 25 English areas will be the first to receive help from new mental health support teams. The Department for Education and Department of Health have named the “trailblazer” areas for the new teams, which will work with around 8,000 children and up to 20 schools each from late 2019. It comes after the […]

The national roll-out of a long-awaited state-run teacher jobs website won’t be complete until next April, the government has confirmed, prompting concerns that thousands of schools could miss out on savings. The Department for Education said in September that its free “national teaching vacancies service” would be rolled out to the final two regions of […]

Areas with large proportions of SEND pupils will lose out on extra high needs funding announced by the government last week because the cash is not being allocated based on demand for support. The government announced over the weekend that it will pump an £250 million into school high needs budgets over the next two […]

An academy criticised by Ofsted for its “stage, not age” curriculum model has been warned it could face being removed from its sponsor amid concerns over a lack of improvement. The Department for Education has today published a letter from regional schools commissioner Martin Post to the Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust about Cuckoo Hall Academy, […]

The number of data security incidents reported by the education sector rocketed by more than 43 per cent after the introduction of general data protection regulations. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reported a rise in reports of disclosure issues – where sensitive information is inadvertently shared – and cyber-attacks between July and September this […]

Neither ministers nor the opposition are giving the full picture when it comes to free school closures,  analysis by Schools Week shows. There have been conflicting claims in the past few weeks about the number that have closed since the programme began, but few claims are backed by official government statistics.   The claims On […]

Referrals by educational institutions to “prevent”, the government’s anti-extremism programme, rose by almost a quarter in the 2017-18 financial year. New data from the Home Office shows the number of referrals from the education sector rose from 1,976 in 2016-17, to 2,462 in 2017-18. The rise brings the number of referrals from education staff almost to […]

One of the country’s largest academy trusts has vowed to turn around an ‘inadequate’ school threatened with having its funding terminated by the government. Reach 2 said it had “already put in place a number of significant changes” at Sprites Primary Academy in Ipswich, which has been hit with a “minded to terminate” notice by […]