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Hanging by a thread: How the system is failing SEND children

Shocking reports detail how vulnerable children and their families are left to fall into crisis

Just 2% of promised CO2 monitors delivered to schools

But education secretary says deliveries will ‘ramp up’ in November

£3k ‘level up premium’ to send ‘best’ teachers to in-need areas

Johnson reannounces retention policy that his government scrapped last year

New framework to set out the purpose of academy trust CEOs

The work will also set ethics expectations for academy bosses

Ofsted to visit more MATs when evaluations restart

Watchdog says smaller and specialist trusts will now face visits

Covid vaccines for children: what schools need to know

The government has published guidance today on how the vaccine roll-out in schools for 12- to 15-year-olds will work. Here’s your trusty Schools Week guide on what you need to know. Schools won’t run jabs roll-out … As with normal school vaccinations, the School Age Immunisation Service (SAIS) will plan the roll-out, administer the jabs […]

Zahawi: I’ll put children and families at centre of ‘building back better’

New education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has signaled that children and their families will be the focus of his new drive to “build back better”. In his first statement since replacing axed Gavin Williamson today, Zahawi said children have had a “tough time” during the pandemic. The former children’s minister added: “I’ll be listening to them […]

Reshuffle: Nick Gibb sacked as schools minister

DfE stalwart surprise casualty in Boris Johnson’s ‘build back better’ reshuffle

‘If you believe in what you’re doing, why would you bend?’

Love him or loathe him, Nick Gibb was made for the job of schools minister, says Jonathan Simons