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Children’s commissioner: ‘Millions of pupils miss out on support’

Millions of vulnerable pupils have been denied much-needed support because scarce children’s services have to be targeted only at...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Inaugural FestABLE becomes a celebration of SEND

Founders of the first ever festival celebrating special educational want to “bring teachers and families into the same space”...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Beware informal ‘learning plans’, SEND experts warn

Pupils with special educational needs are being issued with informal learning plans in place of official plans that come...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Alternative provision academy trusts keen to open secure schools

Academy chains that cater for excluded pupils are keen to open new secure schools for young offenders, but the...

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Jess Staufenberg
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National teaching job website shrouded with secrecy

The Department for Education has finally launched its free teacher vacancy website – but it somehow didn’t manage to...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Free school that left pupil behind on school trip to close

A specialist science and technology free school in Newcastle will close this summer, three months after one of its...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Teacher vacancy website up-and-running in north east and Cambridgeshire

The government has finally launched a free teacher vacancy website in two regions of the country, promising it will...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Academy trusts invited to set up ‘secure schools’ for pupils in custody

Academy trusts are being invited to set up “secure schools” for pupils languishing in youth custody, under new plans...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Most free schools open in areas of need, and 4 other things we learned

The majority of free schools opened in areas of need, research has found, but they are usually neither innovative...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg