SEND

Soaring food costs leave special schools with hole in budgets

Unlike mainstream schools, schools for children with special needs do not receive specific funding for some free meals

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Law change eases way for church schools to academise

The government has revived a law change from its scrapped schools bill, removing a 'significant barrier' to the academisation...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

It’s the same pay for double the work, say SATs markers

Capita faces criticism over slashed marking rates for the second year running

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Ministers abandon hope of Johnson’s six million tutoring target

Subsidy change means schools will fork out less for tutoring next year, but half as many courses will be...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Unusual trust job ad seeks ‘Curmudgeonly Eccentric Oddball’

Special school MAT admits it is 'not entirely sure' what the CEO role entails

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

School building condition data will be published this term, says Gibb

Pledge comes almost four years after landmark survey of schools was completed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

DfE to increase tutoring subsidy to 50% next year as take-up stalls

But no extra cash as ministers bank on continued lower-than-expected take-up

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Unison ballots 140,000 school support staff for strike

Vote over councils' £1,925 pay offer raises prospect of even greater disruption to schools this autumn

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Regional directors reveal academies approach

Officials are deploying 'soft levers' to encourage small schools to convert and build capacity in the system

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker