Support staff

Unions: £1,290 support staff pay offer ‘falls short’

'Many workers will feel let down because their household bills continue to rise'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Relationships and sex education

New sex education guidance proposals: What schools need to know

Age limits on 'sensitive' topics, a ban on teaching about gender identity and new content on sexual harassment and...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Behaviour

Seven tips to reduce youth violence in schools

Youth Endowment Fund publishes new guidance for schools as poll shows most teachers witnessed assaults

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Music

Schools ‘expected’ to publish music development plan summaries

Website summary 'should reflect how a school delivers music education to pupils and what changes they are planning in...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Scrap primary tests for ‘digital SATs’ at 14, says think tank

EDSK also renews calls for GCSEs and A-levels to be replaced by a four-year 'baccalaureate'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Home education

Home education abuse review: ‘Protective’ school factor ‘missing from lives’

Review into deaths and abuse of 41 children finds they were 'less visible to agencies than those who attend...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE ‘lack of engagement’ with outdoor space inquiry criticised

But top civil servant says department 'does not hold formal joint responsibility for the policy areas in the inquiry'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Teachers’ pensions: Emergency fund needed to cover grant shortfall

Union leaders write to ministers after warnings that schools face funding shortfalls 'of £70,000 or more'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Faith schools

Catholic school caught up in row over abolition of 50% cap

Education secretary criticised for launching faith reforms at school with fewer pupils on free school meals

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker