Movers and Shakers

MAT names inclusion director as new CEO

Incoming Anthem Schools Trust boss set to leave one of England’s biggest MATs for new role

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

More schools miss out as ‘lottery’ repair grants fall again

Just 35 per cent of schools that applied for condition improvement funding get cash

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

DfE extends neurodiversity support scheme, but with less funding

Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Child poverty: Schools ‘have no time’ to wait for strategy

Unions urge government not to ‘kick the can down the road’ amid reports of delays to flagship Labour strategy

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Biggest-ever academy trust merger given minister greenlight

Catholic mega MAT set to become second biggest in England as bosses eye September launch

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Education cuts would risk school budgets, warns IFS

Analysis ‘will make harrowing reading for school and college leaders already faced with intense pressures on their budgets’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Solutions

Cinema trips and summer schools boost attendance 

We look at a school bucking the national trend of rising absences to learn how they’re doing it

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Loss of £80m low-carbon skills fund could stop schools going green

Cash-strapped schools will be unable to afford bids for a wider decarbonisation scheme, consultants warn

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Speech and language pilot extended, but funding is cut

Early language support for every child pilot gets extension, but funding reduced despite aim to reach more children

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Five things we learned about the teacher workforce from the STRB report

Teachers’ pay has been eroded far more sharply than other professions, data shows

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

Extra £1bn SEND funding is ‘not reaching children’

Many councils aren’t passing on the funding allocated for high needs at last year’s budget

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

SEND reforms: the backlash begins

‘If SEND isn’t fixed now – it will become so broken and big, it never gets resolved’, says one…

John Dickens
John Dickens