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The DfE has not contacted some primaries potentially needing RISE support because low pupil numbers mean data goes unpublished

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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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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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School buildings

Community health hubs could use empty classrooms

LocatED chief 'seriously worried' closures due to demographic shifts could undo the work of the free schools programme

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Solutions

New AI platform aims to make sense of ‘myriad of data’

Open Education AI formally launches as a 'sector-led non-profit' and seeks to help schools bring together data from multiple...

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School funding

Trusts’ finances improve, but leaders brace for more rainy days

Some chains boost reserves by up to 900%, but others remain in deficit as leaders warn of tough times...

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