Schools white paper

Private special school fees capped in ‘profit before children’ crackdown

Plan for price bands and national standards follows award-winning exposure by Schools Week of soaring private sector spend

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News

Movers and shakers: DfE, Camden Learning, CCT, Skills Builder UK

This week’s movers and shakers include an American football referee and a collector of rare 1980s vintage fragrances

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Inclusion

SEND bailout could ‘reduce incentives to contain costs’

Leaders welcome plan to write off 90% of deficits, but warn there is 'not currently enough money in the...

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Ofsted

Ofsted requests schools publish QR code with report card content

Watchdog wants parents to get links to full reports to avoid 'cherry picking' only positive grades

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Ofsted

Ofsted reviews data shown in special school report cards

New reports currently compare metrics like capacity of special schools to other schools in their phase, not other specialist...

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Inclusion

Government to write off 90% of councils’ SEND deficits

Local authorities will get a grant to cover all but 10% of historic deficits accrued by the end of...

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Inclusion

Recruiter: Hire us and get EHCP applications done free

Concerns over 'troubling commodification of statutory SEND processes at a time when schools are already overwhelmed'

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Inclusion

Revealed: DfE’s orders to councils as SEND reforms quietly begin

Whitehall tells councils not to wait for the white paper or further information on deficits to get started

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Inclusion

Councils snub alternative funding to press on with special schools

Local authorities were offered the choice of continuing with projects or taking cash to boost places elsewhere

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