News Special school leaders call for clarity on future funding Plans for national bandings on specialist provision packages ‘deeply concerning’ Ruth Lucas 4h Ruth Lucas 4h Behaviour Off-rolling curbs welcomed, but warnings over ‘gaps in data’ Ministers plan to tighten up scrutiny of pupil moves – and to interrogate leaders suspected of off-rolling Jack Dyson 5h Jack Dyson 5h Schools white paper Long read Will reforms fix the SEND funding crisis? Councils may face a rise in requests for EHCPs to secure special school places ahead of the reforms Chaminda Jayanetti 5h Chaminda Jayanetti 5h Schools white paper Retention payments for headteachers ‘won’t address why they are quitting’ Union leaders ‘unconvinced’ annual payments to keep heads in under-served areas are answer to staffing crisis Lydia Chantler-Hicks 8h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 8h Schools white paper Minister’s rallying cry for expert SEND staff to return Georgia Gould pledged staff like educational psychologists will be in classrooms under new ‘experts at hand’ service Samantha Booth 8h Samantha Booth 8h Schools white paper Schools in ‘eye of the storm’ of SEND complaints Schools will have a legal duty to create digital individual support plans for all children with additional needs Samantha Booth 15h Samantha Booth 15h News Private schools ‘left in the dark’ over potential academy conversion Just 27 private schools have become state-funded in a decade Ruth Lucas 20h Ruth Lucas 20h Schools white paper Clarity sought as trust growth funding ‘absent’ from white paper Ministers want all schools in trusts, but cut funding for expanding trusts last year Jack Dyson 1d Jack Dyson 1d Schools white paper Exclusive Kevan Collins to be Phillipson’s SEND delivery adviser Collins, already a senior DfE figure, will focus on white paper roll-out and reviewing how DfE ‘engages with councils’ Samantha Booth 3d Samantha Booth 3d Assessment DfE wants to ditch ‘average’ labels for school progress scores The current ‘confidence interval’ ratings can limit understanding of a school’s performance, the government has said Freddie Whittaker 3d Freddie Whittaker 3d Schools white paper Schools white paper: The key schools policies Fair banding transparency, a crackdown on off-rolling and calls for all schools to be in trusts set out in… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4d Lydia Chantler-Hicks and Jack Dyson 4d Schools white paper Schools white paper: What is happening to EHCPs under SEND reforms? DfE expects to move 1 in 8 pupils from EHCPs to new individual support plans by 2035 Ruth Lucas 4d Ruth Lucas 4d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,026 Older
