Politics Live blog from the NEU and NASUWT conferences The NEU is gathering in Brighton this week, while the NASUWT will assemble in Birmingham on Friday Freddie Whittaker 2h Lydia Chantler-Hicks and Freddie Whittaker 2h Politics SEND and the far-right on the NEU conference agenda Around 1,500 NEU members will gather in Brighton from Monday to Thursday Lydia Chantler-Hicks 7h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 7h Schools Three primary free schools to go ahead after appeals Meanwhile six cancelled special free school projects have been appealed Samantha Booth 3d Samantha Booth 3d Inclusion We ARE consulting on SEND appeals, insists DfE Lawyers ask for an ‘urgent explanation’ after conflicting messages on SEND tribunal Ruth Lucas 3d Ruth Lucas 3d Academies Exclusive The teachers with a 24-hour commute Major trust partners with tropical island’s only secondary to send staff on ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ secondment Jack Dyson 3d Jack Dyson 3d Schools Cuts to Prevent staff considered by Kent as funding reduced Reform-run Kent council tells schools it may lose their Prevent education officer posts Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3d Schools Academies lobby pension fund chiefs over ‘unfair’ extra payments West Yorkshire academy chains believe they are paying millions more than local authority schools Jack Dyson 3d Jack Dyson 3d Inclusion Exclusive Councils head to court over £4.5m in special school fees Wandsworth council has launched legal action against Kent over a school it ran in the county Ruth Lucas 3d Ruth Lucas 3d Inclusion Whitehall to leverage capital cash to force council mainstream focus Town halls will be required to sign a new ‘memorandum of understanding’ on how to spend £860m of high… Samantha Booth 3d Samantha Booth 3d News Attendance gap for poorer pupils reaches all-time high Overall absence and persistent absence rates see improvements, but severe absence remains stubborn Ruth Lucas 4d Ruth Lucas 4d Schools Third of parents say they take children on term-time holidays New Public First report also reveals regional divides in attitudes to absence and behaviour Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4d Inclusion DfE inclusion tsar to lead SEND expert panel Academy trust boss Tom Rees will co-chair a panel to create inclusion standards and new SEND ‘packages’ Ruth Lucas 5d Ruth Lucas 5d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,032 Older
