News

Secret £1m bailout as PFI windfalls and school woes grow

'Confidential' deal to cover £1m 'bullet payment' revealed as figures suggest PFI firms could have made £86m in one...

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News

‘Don’t pop champagne yet’ warn accountants as trusts’ fortunes improve

Kreston group warns despite improving academy trust finances, most expect to dip into savings by 2028

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Jack Dyson
Inclusion

Piloted in-school SEND support ‘cut exclusions’ – report

Standardised EHCPs also welcomed by parents and councils, researchers find

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News

Coast and Vale paid Delta £440k ahead of merger

The sum was handed over for 'extensive work' before trusts joined forces to create 63-school MAT

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Academies

Struggling trust failed to clear payment to outgoing ‘senior executive’

MAT also did not conduct internal audit as reserves tumbled due to 'rising costs', accounts show

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School improvement

‘Schoolboy error’ sees smaller schools escape RISE low attainment crackdown

The DfE has not contacted some primaries potentially needing RISE support because low pupil numbers mean data goes unpublished

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Best-paid academy boss earns £530k after £15k pay rise

Harris Federation CEO Sir Dan Moynihan received £15k wage hike last year, newly published accounts show

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Jack Dyson
Attendance

Absence fines level out after post-Covid surge

Unions argue new £80 penalties are not 'much of a deterrent' amid fresh calls for limits on travel firm...

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Leadership and governance

Schools with good governance ‘better prepared for Ofsted’

Those with effective boards 'more likely to sustain improvement beyond the inspection cycle', report finds

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