Schools Retention payments for headteachers ‘won’t address why they are quitting’ Union leaders ‘unconvinced’ annual payments to keep heads in under-served areas are answer to staffing crisis Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mins Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mins Inclusion Minister’s rallying cry for expert SEND staff to return Georgia Gould pledged staff like educational psychologists will be in classrooms under new ‘experts at hand’ service Samantha Booth 6mins Samantha Booth 6mins Schools white paper Schools in ‘eye of the storm’ of SEND complaints Schools will have a legal duty to create digital individual support plans for all children with additional needs Samantha Booth 7h Samantha Booth 7h News Private schools ‘left in the dark’ over potential academy conversion Just 27 private schools have become state-funded in a decade Ruth Lucas 12h Ruth Lucas 12h Schools white paper Clarity sought as trust growth funding ‘absent’ from white paper Ministers want all schools in trusts, but cut funding for expanding trusts last year Jack Dyson 20h Jack Dyson 20h Schools white paper Exclusive Kevan Collins to be Phillipson’s SEND delivery adviser Collins, already a senior DfE figure, will focus on white paper roll-out and reviewing how DfE ‘engages with councils’ Samantha Booth 3d Samantha Booth 3d Assessment DfE wants to ditch ‘average’ labels for school progress scores The current ‘confidence interval’ ratings can limit understanding of a school’s performance, the government has said Freddie Whittaker 3d Freddie Whittaker 3d Schools white paper Schools white paper: The key schools policies Fair banding transparency, a crackdown on off-rolling and calls for all schools to be in trusts set out in… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4d Lydia Chantler-Hicks and Jack Dyson 4d Schools white paper Schools white paper: What is happening to EHCPs under SEND reforms? DfE expects to move 1 in 8 pupils from EHCPs to new individual support plans by 2035 Ruth Lucas 4d Ruth Lucas 4d Schools white paper Schools white paper: The key SEND reform policies DfE documents finally flesh out proposed ‘layered’ approach Samantha Booth 4d Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker 4d Schools white paper White paper: £1.6bn for mainstream inclusion, £1.8bn for external support But funding has to last three years and it’s unclear what will happen once it runs out Freddie Whittaker 5d Freddie Whittaker 5d Schools white paper New headteachers to get £15k to work where they’re ‘needed most’ Government will also ‘ensure all schools join high-quality trusts’ and let councils set up chains Freddie Whittaker 6d Freddie Whittaker 6d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,025 Older
