Ofqual’s 3-year plan for exams: need to know The exams watchdog wants to support the use of ‘innovative technology’
Ban primary exclusions, and 5 more recommendations from ex-children’s tsar Anne Longfield’s Commission on Young Lives calls for end to ‘exclusions culture’
£11k canapes help guests swallow Zahawi’s climate strategy Civil servants were barred from the buffet at Natural History Museum launch event
Ministers plan to publish school-level tutoring take-up – and Ofsted will check Government wants to ‘improve transparency’ and boost take-up, but sector leaders fight the plans
SEND review consultation may be extended as accessible versions delayed BSL and easy-read versions of the green paper were promised almost a month ago
Pupils with special needs travel hundreds of miles to school At least 3,000 children travel 20 miles or more away from home
No place to go: Special schools’ capacity crisis revealed Leaders convert staffrooms and therapy spaces amid surge in pupils with special needs
Revealed: The spiralling cost of a broken SEND system Three-quarters of councils now have high needs financial blackholes, with many rejecting large numbers of requests for special needs support
Investigation: The broken special needs system Joint investigation by Schools Week and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals the scale of the challenge ahead for SEND reforms