A year of Labour: how are their manifesto promises progressing? As part of our series on Labour’s first year in government, we looked at the 30 manifesto pledges to see what progress has (or hasn’t) been made…
Minister ‘frustrated’ over school behaviour survey delay Skills minister also shoots down calls to ban social media for under 16s, saying the evidence on its impact was ‘mixed’
Internal AP risks becoming ‘costly holding pens’, report warns Lack of guidance and oversight of in-school AP highlighted in new report that aims to codify good practice
Call for ‘enforceable’ school inclusion framework and audits Schools should follow ‘enforceable’ national inclusivity standards to ‘shape a system that works for everyone’, major FED report says
Investigate ‘shocking’ special school free meal take-up, DfE told Study finds quarter of eligible pupils in special schools not taking up free school meal
What the spending review really means for schools The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets, writes Luke Sibieta, and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is highly optimistic
An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out The default position that teaching should be professionally (and sometimes personally) all-encompassing is a retention own-goal
We must reclaim our role as SEND and AP’s fixers. ASAP New project aims to gather and broadcast the solutions to the SEND funding crisis that are lighting the way to an effective long-term plan
SEND reforms: the backlash begins ‘If SEND isn’t fixed now – it will become so broken and big, it never gets resolved’, says one source. But parents are already ‘panicked’. Schools Week investigates