Curriculum

DfE considers new approach to careers funding 

Government begins market engagement over ‘future support for schools and colleges to deliver careers education’

Esmé Kenney
Esmé Kenney
Schools

£900k scheme offers ‘equal access to chess in schools’

Between 350 and 450 schools across all nine regions of the UK will take part

Esmé Kenney
Esmé Kenney
Politics

Live blog from the NEU and NASUWT conferences

The NEU is gathering in Brighton this week, while the NASUWT will assemble in Birmingham on Friday

Freddie Whittaker
Lydia Chantler-Hicks and Freddie Whittaker
Politics

SEND and the far-right on the NEU conference agenda

Around 1,500 NEU members will gather in Brighton from Monday to Thursday

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Three primary free schools to go ahead after appeals

Meanwhile six cancelled special free school projects have been appealed

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

We ARE consulting on SEND appeals, insists DfE

Lawyers ask for an ‘urgent explanation’ after conflicting messages on SEND tribunal

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas


Academies

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
Jack Dyson
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
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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
Jack Dyson
Inclusion

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
Ruth Lucas
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
Samantha Booth
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
Ruth Lucas