Schools Three primary free schools to go ahead after appeals Meanwhile six cancelled special free school projects have been appealed Samantha Booth 6h Samantha Booth 6h Inclusion We ARE consulting on SEND appeals, insists DfE Lawyers ask for an ‘urgent explanation’ after conflicting messages on SEND tribunal Ruth Lucas 8h Ruth Lucas 8h Academies Exclusive The teachers with a 24-hour commute Major trust partners with tropical island’s only secondary to send staff on ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ secondment Jack Dyson 8h Jack Dyson 8h Schools Cuts to Prevent staff considered by Kent as funding reduced Reform-run Kent council tells schools it may lose their Prevent education officer posts Lydia Chantler-Hicks 9h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 9h Schools Academies lobby pension fund chiefs over ‘unfair’ extra payments West Yorkshire academy chains believe they are paying millions more than local authority schools Jack Dyson 10h Jack Dyson 10h Inclusion Exclusive Councils head to court over £4.5m in special school fees Wandsworth council has launched legal action against Kent over a school it ran in the county Ruth Lucas 10h Ruth Lucas 10h Inclusion Whitehall to leverage capital cash to force council mainstream focus Town halls will be required to sign a new ‘memorandum of understanding’ on how to spend £860m of high… Samantha Booth 22h Samantha Booth 22h News Attendance gap for poorer pupils reaches all-time high Overall absence and persistent absence rates see improvements, but severe absence remains stubborn Ruth Lucas 1d Ruth Lucas 1d Schools Third of parents say they take children on term-time holidays New Public First report also reveals regional divides in attitudes to absence and behaviour Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2d Inclusion DfE inclusion tsar to lead SEND expert panel Academy trust boss Tom Rees will co-chair a panel to create inclusion standards and new SEND ‘packages’ Ruth Lucas 2d Ruth Lucas 2d Inclusion New ‘inclusion strategies’: What schools need to know DfE fleshes out requirements for annual strategies that will attract £400m a year in funding Ruth Lucas 2d Ruth Lucas 2d Inclusion Some schools ‘actively discourage’ SEN support pupils, research warns Top performing schools are found to take less pupils with SEND and eligible for free school meals Ruth Lucas 4d Ruth Lucas 4d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,031 Older
