News No internal audit for trust with £8.4m deficit Trouble-hit Arthur Terry Learning Partnership could receive a further £1 million in emergency funding Jack Dyson 3h Jack Dyson 3h Schools How falling school rolls are not just London’s crisis Declining childbirth rates are hitting school demographics with many schools facing closure as the issue spreads across England Samantha Booth 3h Chaminda Jayanetti 3h Academies New powers to close academy trusts ‘must be used with caution’ Sector responds to news government is set to gain new intervention powers once MAT inspections start Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3h AI Exclusive DfE plans to use AI to help answer your emails Plans say system can reduce time to draft a response from 30 to just one minute Ruth Lucas 11h Ruth Lucas 11h Exclusions Investigation Internal exclusion: Reset or rejection? Government does not collect national data on internal exclusion. But new figures reveal how often the controversial practice is… Ruth Lucas 13h Ruth Lucas 13h News SEND roadshow sessions ‘have shaped our thinking’, insists Gould Schools Week joined the schools minister in Darlington to discuss the DfE’s recent consultation Ruth Lucas 20h Ruth Lucas 20h Ofsted Trust inspections and new intervention powers: What we know so far Ofsted to inspect academy trusts for the first time and DfE plans sweeping intervention powers Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1d Exams New GCSE results app to be rolled out nationwide It follows a pilot where just six per cent of invited schools and colleges took part, but ministers hope… Samantha Booth 2d Samantha Booth 2d Ofsted Ofsted MAT inspections could begin in 2027 New legislation will also give DfE new intervention powers to ‘step in’ when trusts don’t meet standards Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2d Academies Exclusive Lift academy trust set to hand over two special schools The 58-school MAT believes both academies will be ‘best supported within a specialist trust’ Jack Dyson 4d Jack Dyson 4d News New year’s honours knighthood for Cabot CEO Stephen Taylor Plus a damehood for a prominent professor of social mobility as 57 in the school sector recognised Freddie Whittaker 2w Freddie Whittaker 2w News Cost of DfE’s school insurance scheme to rise 7.4% Risk protection arrangement costs have risen by 61 per cent since 2020 Ruth Lucas 2w Ruth Lucas 2w 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,017 Older
