Schools

Children’s commissioner orders compulsory survey of schools

Dame Rachel de Souza uses statutory powers to ask schools about their provision and barriers to supporting pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Gamekeeper turns poacher as Hayes takes committee chair

Former shadow children's minister talks Ofsted, recruitment and retention, funding and holding her former colleagues to account

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Revealed: The three candidates for education committee chair

Two former children's minister and disability rights campaigner compete for influential job

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Schools face ‘long slog’ to resolve enduring Covid challenges

'Concerted action' needed as secondaries face reading challenge and primaries battle lack of early development

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted names new ‘external reference group’ members

Groups will offer 'independent advice and challenge' as watchdog embarks on wide-ranging reforms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Phillipson meets with unions to plan new ‘partnership’ model

Unions and employers would be asked for perspectives at 'early stage' of policy development

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

‘Inclusion’ a key ‘criterion’ for new Ofsted report cards

Schools that turn away SEND pupils face being 'graded down', says chief inspector

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Gilbert review: Ofsted ‘defensive and complacent’ after head’s death

Former inspector Dame Christine Gilbert's damning review found the headteacher's suicide 'shone a light on a climate of fear...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker