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
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 just £289m to fund it
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
Revealed: Oak names new curriculum partners But contracts to create lessons for two subjects not awarded as bids ‘did not meet high quality bar’
Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.
Home Office U-turn on blasphemy guidance Department now ‘looking to draft new guidance’ after Quran incident
Ofqual chief would use exam conditions for coursework amid ChatGPT fears Dr Jo Saxton says concern over AI cheating ‘reinforces the importance’ of exams
SEND contextual league tables plan shelved DfE claims proposals had ‘mixed feedback’, with concerns it could ‘risk generating perverse incentives’
Oak founders abandon national academy At least seven of Oak’s original 11 trust curriculum partners have snubbed the new quango by choosing not to bid to provide new lessons