Attendance

The school running parent absence awareness courses

Primary school's initiative is being shared across the borough of Camden as part of best practice guidance

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
News

Reform starts to reveal its thinking on SEND reform

Party's deputy leader says system should 'go back to trusting teachers' amid a 'crisis of over diagnosis', calling ear...

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
News

Teacher wellbeing plunges to new low

More than three quarters of teachers report poor mental health and a third could be at risk of clinical...

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
News

Sara Sharif: Home education check was made at wrong address the day before her murder

Review finds there 'can now be no doubt that Sara's father and stepmother used home education to keep Sara...

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Features

Auditing Austerity: How York Schools are tackling poverty

Despite its outward affluence, York suffers a wide equality gap between its richest and poorest. Schools Week looks at...

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Home education

Home education: Children forced to travel miles to sit exams

Analysis shows at least 10 centres have closed to private candidates in the past year

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Ruth Lucas
News

AI to set minimum attendance targets for all schools

Schools will be issued with 'attendance baseline improvement expectations' from this month

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Ruth Lucas
News

Government school readiness target ‘risky’, say experts

Experts fear an over-focus on those 'closest to the line' as ministers impose 75% school readiness aim

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Curriculum review

Ministers will put RE on national curriculum – but sector must ‘reach consensus’

Government to set up taskforce to oversee the change, but only if sector reaches 'consensus on whether this is...

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas