Languages

Language hubs showed ‘signs of positive impacts’ before being cut

DfE plans to replace hubs scheme with online platform and 14 strategic learning networks, with £2.2m less funding

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
News

SEND spend freeze has led to EHCP rise, MPs say

SEND funding rates would be 40 per cent higher if they had kept pace with inflation, report from parliamentary…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

New minister reveals SEND reform principles

Georgia Gould promises to put teacher and pupil voice ‘at forefront’ of reforms – and commits to ‘legal right…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Movers and Shakers

Movers and Shakers: WomenEd, Birmingham council, Transforming Lives, Wolf Inclusion, E-ACT, Sparx

This week’s movers and shakers include a former chicken-catcher, skydiver, competitive swimmer and award-winning cadet

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Ex-DfE civil servant takes up role at SEND contract firm

Consultancy held contract for ‘delivering better value’ SEND programme which aimed to cut new EHCPs

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
School improvement

The pitfalls of RISE teams’ new ‘low attainer’ push 

Analysis suggests hundreds of schools could be in line for the targeted help, with most among the most deprived…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


News

Ofsted’s changes fail to quell school inclusion concerns 

Ofsted has said ‘inclusion’ will be a key focus of its new framework, but leaders are worried

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Ofsted relies on parents’ views as it ‘forces through’ inspection changes

Inspectorate withholds analysis of consultation responses, but publishes parent polling

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Ofsted keeps report cards support (or lack of) secret

Unions blast the watchdog after it only provides a narrative summary of responses to its consultation

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Politics

McKinnell: ‘I got up every day and gave it everything’

The former schools minister speaks to Schools Week after a brutal reshuffle

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Now the armed forces flag SEND system failures

MP says council delay in issuing an EHCP for a service child is causing ‘serious operational problems’

John Dickens
John Dickens
Politics

Reform on education: All headlines, no policy lines

Sparkly suits, pyrotechnics and a war on pupil ‘indoctrination’: Reform’s party conference and what a Farage victory could mean…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks