Attendance

‘Embarrassing’: AI attendance reports suspended days after launch

Leaders report inaccuracies in new attendance target scheme launched last week by government

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Curriculum review

Progress 8: A third of pupils’ GCSE entries don’t fit reformed measure

Changes will make ‘little difference’ to scores but likely to affect qualification entries, finds Datalab analysis

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND safety valve ‘success story’ racks up £4.5m deficit

A council cited by top government official as mostly clearing its high needs deficit has now fallen back into…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Admissions

School’s intake cut blocked despite £2m deficit fear

Watchdog rejects plan despite admitting the change could help the academy ‘attract more students’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Behaviour

Schools to face legal duty to record seclusion use

New legislation would mean schools must record their use of non-disciplinary isolation and report it to parents

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
early years

Ministers urge primaries to consider childminders on site

Schools without space for full nursery told to consider teaming up with childminder to provide early years provision

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Academies

Ormiston trust gives up founding school

The academy chain plans to hand the school over to a trust ‘with strong local presence and capacity’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Sara Sharif: Home education check was made at wrong address the day before her murder

Review finds there ‘can now be no doubt that Sara’s father and stepmother used home education to keep Sara…

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Exams

New British Sign Language GCSE rules confirmed, but will exam boards offer it?

Charities welcome ‘landmark’ step in establishing British Sign Language GCSE, but next step rests with exam boards

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

£5.4m scheme to boost maths skills in early years settings

DfE seeking organisation to deliver programme ‘to at least 5,000 settings’

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
MIS

DfE looks to reduce MIS ‘legal risk’ amid £200m turf war

Officials have launched a consultation on how they can simplify the process of buying the software

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Home education

Home education: Children forced to travel miles to sit exams

Analysis shows at least 10 centres have closed to private candidates in the past year

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas