Home education

Councils urged to create ‘voluntary’ home education registers

DfE also recommends data-sharing with police and GPs as plans for a compulsory register remain in the long grass

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Labour would scrap minimum service levels for schools

Bridget Phillipson says 'attack on the rights of working people' is an 'admission of failure' over last year's pay...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Thousands wait months for DBS checks as police overwhelmed

As many as one in ten school workers faced waits of over 60 days in some areas last year,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Council’s £800 exercise results in £1.2m school funding boost

It has prompted fresh calls for a system of auto-enrolment for free school meals

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Catch up: Some tutoring may have harmed pupil outcomes

But study into Randstad-run year of NTP found school-led tutoring likely led to 'small' boost in results

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND system is ‘lose, lose, lose’, admits Keegan

Education secretary also says parents use 'tribunal factor' to get kids into 'very expensive independent schools'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Pupil number forecast revised up, but steep decline still expected

Higher-than-expected primary pupil numbers in this year's school census may be the reason, says DfE

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Freddie Whittaker
News

RAAC confirmed at 214 schools, says DfE

Number of confirmed cases up by 24 per cent in a month

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Freddie Whittaker
Exams

GCSE disadvantage gap widens again

Gap in attainment between poorer pupils and better-off peers widest since 2011

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker