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Mental health charities call for more youth specialists to be trained

Schools struggle to get pupils seen by qualified mental health professionals because training for counsellors focuses too much on...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Half of schools aren’t ready for GDPR data protection officer requirement

Half of schools are not yet ready to meet their legal duty to appoint a data protection officer, although...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupil absence fines down 5.4%

The number of fines issued to parents for unauthorised pupil absence has fallen by 5.4 per cent. 149,321 penalty...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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92 schools are waiting for a sponsor, and 4 other things we learned at education questions

MPs spent over an hour grilling the education secretary and his ministers in Parliament this afternoon. Damian Hinds answered...

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Freddie Whittaker
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NUT spent £326k on general election campaign

The National Union of Teachers spent more than £326,000 on campaigning in the run-up to last year’s general election....

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Freddie Whittaker
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Train all teachers in attachment issues, says trauma expert

School staff should all be trained to deal with emotional trauma among children in care, according to an expert....

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Freddie Whittaker
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Single academy trust told to improve or face closure

A single-academy trust in West Yorkshire has been warned it faces closure if it does not improve after Ofsted...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Damian Hinds faces first education committee grilling

The education secretary will take questions from MPs when he appears in front of the parliamentary education committee next...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Do the maths: Cost of new times-tables tests to top £5.2m

New times-tables tests for nine-year-olds will cost the Department for Education more than £5 million to implement, Schools Week...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker