We’re putting trust leaders at the heart of policy development CST’s new policy advisory group will provide ‘critical, front-line perspectives that will help to shape the policy landscape for school trusts’, writes Steve Rollett
Academy conversion grant scrapped and ‘no plans’ for further trust capacity fund cash Academies body says decisions will make it ‘much more difficult’ for trusts to support schools in need and will leave smaller primaries ‘vulnerable’
Budget 2024: Back to the future on school spending Per-pupil funding will return to 2010 levels, but pressures on schools mean the future won’t look that different from the recent past, writes Luke Sibieta
Budget 2024: Most of £1bn SEND injection will plug deficits Ten things schools need to know after Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget
Budget 2024: £2.3bn more for schools, including £1bn for SEND Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers first Labour budget in 14 years
DfE defunds school maintenance projects over ‘irregularities’ Department won’t say how many or which schools are affected
Budget 2024: Schools must be front of the funding queue £1.4bn pledged by the chancellor relates to the existing rebuilding programme, which will only reach around 500 schools, warns Paul Whiteman
Risk ‘positive’ school improvement story ‘masks growing challenges’, says ex-DfE adviser Sam Freedman says it’s ‘hard to see’ how issues faced by schools can be fixed without investment
National insurance rise could be a £400m headache for schools NFER adds its voice to calls for schools to be reimbursed as its analysis finds rise could add ‘significant strain’