Attendance

Poorer pupils’ higher absences ‘entirely explain’ growth in attainment gap

Disadvantage gap would be four months smaller at age 16 if absence rates between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils were...

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Movers and Shakers

Northern Education Trust appoints new chief executive officer

Deputy to step up to top role, as another large trust appoints a new boss

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News

DfE told to come clean on its SEND reforms plan

Education committee chair demands government 'set out its plans and anticipated timescales' for special needs reforms

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News

More children start school with poor speech and language skills, warn teachers

And most say this makes their job harder, poll finds

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Attendance

Term-time holidays a ‘small part’ of attendance woes – minister

Catherine McKinnell says she's focused on children who regularly miss 'significant amounts of school'

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Free school meals

Free school meals data now ‘less useful for research’, warns EPI

Make-up of children who receive free lunches becoming 'more diverse and uncertain' as a result of government policies and...

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Exclusions

Investigation: How councils routinely breach exclusion duty

Councils have six days to find excluded pupils a suitable full-time education. But some youngsters are waiting two years...

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News

Free School Meals check system redesign to boost take-up

The DfE say the redesign will make it 'quicker and easier' for parents to check eligibility for free school...

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School food

‘We can’t run at a loss’: Heads snub flagship breakfast clubs

Government is seeking 750 pilot schools, but some heads say they can't make it work for a basic funding...

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