Samantha Booth | Schools Week

DfE delays ITT market review reforms for a year

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

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’

Omicron case ‘linked’ to Essex primary school

Investigations into spread of variant also taking place at Nottingham school

Council facing legal action over mandatory attendance rule

Local authority is ‘demanding’ all children are back in the classroom

Staff have to ‘drop something’ to fit in ECF, provider admits

Here’s what we learned from the National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers annual conference this week

Home education rises 34%, with Covid most likely to be the reason

The number of children withdrawn from school for elective home education soared by 34 per cent last year, with Covid the reason most frequently cited by parents. Analysis by the Association of Directors of Children’s Services estimated that 115,542 pupils were electively home educated at some point during the 2020-21 academic year, up from 86,335 […]

ITT providers ‘alarmingly selling specific pedagogies’ as ‘be all and end all’, Ofsted says

Some initial teacher training providers inspected under the new Ofsted framework were “misinforming trainees” by teaching them only specific pedagogies, a senior inspector has said. Out of 26 ITT inspections since May, more than half have been rated as less than ‘good’. Previously, all ITT providers were all ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ Helen Matthews, a senior […]

On hold: NLE programme delayed until September

Reforms delayed and interim contract awarded with DfE citing Covid

Single-school trust with £280k head given finance warning

Holland Park School has been told to rein in the salaries of its highly-paid school leaders in a government finance warning that says it should now join a multi-academy trust. The school, in west London, has come under scrutiny in recent months facing allegations of a “toxic” working culture and “public shaming” of students. It […]