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’
Mainstream could meet SEN needs of ‘tens of thousands’ more pupils Government report finds 35,000 more pupils could have needs met in mainstream schools if system is improved
Repeated review of new special school buildings irks councils DfE official says new government is ‘working through urgent decisions and taking time to understand those’
‘High bar’ for new estates improvement notices, says official Senior civil servant issues clarification amid fears over new grounds for a notice to improve