Exams

Ian Bauckham made permanent chair of Ofqual

Academy trust boss has been exams regulator's interim chair for a year

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Covid

Plan B: What does this mean for schools?

No change on face masks, don't move teaching online and inspections cancelled

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Mental health

MPs want mental health support teams extended to all schools in six years

Committee calls for 'urgent action' to prevent services slipping backwards

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Behaviour

Four more leaders wanted for behaviour hubs expansion

DfE seeks 'school partnership leads' for project aimed at supporting 500 schools

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Covid

Heads blast ministers as Covid thwarts nativities again

Prime minister Boris Johnson urged schools not to cancel nativity plays this week

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Teacher training

DfE delays ITT market review reforms for a year

Providers will now have to comply with new requirements from 2024-25

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News

Council has right to see home educated pupils’ work, court finds

But lawyers warn this shouldn't be a 'green light' for local authorities to become more 'prescriptive'

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Samantha Booth
Covid

Omicron case ‘linked’ to Essex primary school

Investigations into spread of variant also taking place at Nottingham school

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Covid

Council facing legal action over mandatory attendance rule

Local authority is 'demanding' all children are back in the classroom

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Samantha Booth