Alternative provision

Trusts queue to open alternative provision free schools

The schools form part of the Department for Education’s SEND and AP improvement plan

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
ITT

Revealed: the experts advising ministers on teacher training reforms review

Academy bosses and Oak chief sit on new panel to 'challenge' government over ECF and ITT reviews

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Samantha Booth
Schools

Lack of specialist maths teachers ‘massive injustice’, says flagship scheme boss

Part-time roles and emphasising the 'social value' of maths teaching could help recruitment woes, Charlie Stripp said

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Samantha Booth
Teacher training

Snubbed teacher training providers get top Ofsted reports

Leaders left 'struggling to explain' why they will stop providing service to schools next year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Amy Walker
SEND

Council SEND deficit bailouts hit £1bn as 20 more issued

Councils told to make mainstream schools more inclusive in new wave of handouts

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Samantha Booth
Schools

Treasury expects schools to charge parents for wraparound childcare

Government tells Schools Week it expects 'most schools will be able to deliver the provision self-sufficiently' from 2026

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Samantha Booth
Politics, Schools

Budget 2023: Hunt wants all primaries to provide ‘wraparound’ childcare

New 'ambition' that all children are able to access 8am to 6pm childcare provision in school by 2026, but...

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Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE will consider new requirement to teach about suicide prevention

Minister: Mental health will be 'priority area' in the upcoming review of relationships, sex and health education guidance

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Oak National Academy

Revealed: Oak names new curriculum partners

But contracts to create lessons for two subjects not awarded as bids 'did not meet high quality bar'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth