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DfE won’t offer free sanitary products to counter period poverty

The Department for Education will not follow the Scottish Government’s lead and provide free sanitary products for pupils in...

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Heath Family Trust issued with financial notice to improve

An academy trust with eight schools in the north-west has been told to improve its finances or lose its...

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Small PRU trust Schools Company stripped of all four schools

A multi-academy trust that presided over the deterioration of three pupil referral units and a secondary school has been...

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Bright Tribe shelves plan to merge with sister trust

Plans for the beleaguered Bright Tribe Trust (BTT) to merge with its sister chain are now on hold –...

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Schools are employing foreign teachers ‘out of desperation’

Schools are being forced to employ foreign teachers the face of a growing recruitment and retention crisis, but not...

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£270k-a-year head quits academy trust role

A headteacher in Warwickshire who has been criticised over her £270,000 salary has left her role “with immediate effect”....

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Gibb ‘open to’ a British sign language GCSE

The Department for Education is now “open to considering” a British sign language GCSE after previously warning that it would...

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Thousands of looked-after children moved 20 miles or more mid-year

Thousands of looked-after children are being moved mid-year to schools more than 20 miles away from their previous school,...

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LocatEd expands remit to include ‘site optimisation’

A company set up by the government to find and buy sites for the free schools programme will now...

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