SEND

Councils splurge £18m on private special schools with repeated failures

Millions funnelled in just one year to settings that have failed independent school standards

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Ofsted

‘What we see are wasted lives’: Meet the Ofsted illegal schools team

In a rare interview, the Ofsted team tasked with tackling illegal schools speaks about the horrors they have witnessed,...

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Schools

sQuid: Give us back our money, parents tell closed payment provider

Company shut up shop in the UK last Friday. Around 600 schools used it

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Funding

‘Devastating and dangerous’: Schools hit by £82m budget raid for SEND

Councils slice record amount from school funds to prop up high needs shortfalls

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
SEND

Cheaper to pay fines than provide SEND support

Councils pay families thousands of pounds for failure to provide support stipulated in EHCPs

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
special schools

Special school leaders fear QTS plan could worsen recruitment crisis

Special schools have more unqualified teachers - so how will the schools bill affect them? We spoke to leaders...

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Private schools

Private special schools charging councils £100k fees failed standards checks

Private equity-owned independent special schools which charge councils fees of up to £131,000 a year are among hundreds that...

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Prevent

Child Prevent referrals to be ‘routinely’ escalated

Major review comes after teenager who murdered three girls in Southport was referred to the programme three times

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
School funding

‘Jobs on the line’ as Devon schools hit by software ‘glitch’

'I redid my whole budget about four times before I finally got it to give me correct figures'

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux