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 depression, damning study shows
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 hidden from view in the last weeks of her life’
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 a project aimed at addressing gaps in the city’s schools
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
AI to set minimum attendance targets for all schools Schools will be issued with ‘attendance baseline improvement expectations’ from this month
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
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 achievable’
‘Another expectation’: Schools to be judged on enrichment benchmarks Leaders demand support to meet new expectations as more than a quarter of schools cut extracurricular activity funding in past year
ASCL and NEU to support NAHT in legal action against Ofsted NAHT filed a claim for judicial review in May, warning the new inspection framework will ‘only increase high-stakes accountability and pressure’