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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News

Reasonable force reporting requirement: What schools need to know

DfE proposes first update to guidance in over a decade, with changes effective from September 2025

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Schools

Head scores victory as Google agrees to delete school reviews

Tech giant says all school reviews will now be deleted because of ‘consistent off-topic and harmful’ comments

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Schools

‘I don’t remember it being this bad’: Teachers reveal scale of Labour’s school-ready promise

Survey reveals mismatch in expectations between teachers and parents over what 'being school ready' means

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Home education

More duties? Some councils have no home education staff

Labour’s schools bill will give councils new duties to check family homes are a 'suitable learning environment'

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