Six steps for delivering a mental health peer support programme Getting students to support each other’s wellbeing can be highly effective, but getting it right requires time and effort
Labour’s SEND reforms must put the onus back on the NHS Conflation of ‘SEN’ and ‘SEND’ in the last set of reforms has contributed to shifting nursing responsibilities onto schools
The select committee’s SEND report lacks practical answers The 95 recommendations in ‘Solving the SEND crisis’ are expensive, time-consuming and won’t put us on a path to sustainable provision. These three would
Labour must not let parental expectations lower standards Ministers must reinforce high expectations when they set out their home-school contract – or risk making an already tough job impossible
What’s really behind white low-income pupils’ underperformance? A deep dive into new data reveals attention to this cohort is not just political grandstanding
This week’s best responses from our readers Missing! A piece of the admissions puzzle. A ministerial responsibility. Support for familes. And clarity from Ofsted.
It’s time to champion school support staff and boost their rights Their pay and conditions are a priority for me as education secretary and will remain so if I become deputy leader
Here’s what every ‘phonics for maths’ programme should deliver Our new benchmarks aim to take the debate out of what the phrase means and set us on the path to consistent implementation
Didagogy: Teacher training’s missing component Despite recent progress, we’re still getting teacher and leader development wrong too often. This new concept hopes to put that right