Academies

Schools have 28% of budgets shaved off by academy trust ‘GAG pooling’

Unions are now demanding greater scrutiny over how trusts pool budgets, as schools await promised guidance

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Governors told to ‘resign’ if they don’t back Catholic mega MAT plans

And another diocese tells governors they could only pass compliance checks with evidence they supported academisation

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SEND

Kent council’s controversial special school inclusion plans shelved

Proposals to redesignate special schools amid accusations some 'turned away most complex pupils' faced legal threats

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Jack Dyson
News

MAT mulls ‘action short of merger’ with other trusts

Astrea Academy Trust CEO says 'there are models for doing things differently' that would allow trusts to collaborate without...

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Fears Catholic school heads ‘coerced’ into mega-MATs

Union raises concerns leaders 'met with hostility' amid rows over archdiocese plans for 'universal academisation'

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Jack Dyson
Funding

Schools’ repair bill ‘much higher’ than £13.8bn estimate

High-ranking Whitehall official warns cost to fix crumbling estate 'almost certain' to be more than thought

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Jack Dyson
School funding

Schools warn of staff cuts as Reeves snubs sector

Leaders face having to make redundancies, curriculum squeezes and cuts to programmes supporting the poorest pupils

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Jack Dyson
School funding

Cost-cutters’ savings ‘won’t compensate’ for inadequate funding

DfE advisers identified £400m of potential cuts last year, but although schools cut more, they could still only implement...

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Jack Dyson
News

Investment areas scheme binned by Labour

Tory levelling-up programme to get more cash into left-behind areas canned

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Jack Dyson