News New ‘inclusion strategies’: What schools need to know DfE fleshes out requirements for annual strategies that will attract £400m a year in funding Ruth Lucas 2h Ruth Lucas 2h News Some schools ‘actively discourage’ SEN support pupils, research warns Top performing schools are found to take less pupils with SEND and eligible for free school meals Ruth Lucas 2d Ruth Lucas 2d Schools More pupils report conspiracy theories and misinfo in school And four in five teachers report having had a pupil bring up a conspiracy theory with them Freddie Whittaker 2d Freddie Whittaker 2d Academies Exclusive David Ross trust braced for redundancies amid falling rolls Cuts loom at 36-school MAT after central team review failed to address funding reductions Jack Dyson 2d Jack Dyson 2d School funding More strikes ‘inevitable’ as trusts axe jobs to stay afloat Dozens of schools rocked by strike announcements over planned restructures dubbed ‘neither fair nor sustainable’ Jack Dyson 2d Jack Dyson 2d School funding ‘We’re not magicians’: Sixth forms’ fury over cash squeeze Leaders say funding gap could threaten their ability to offer a broad range of subjects and hold down class… Esmé Kenney 2d Esmé Kenney 2d Early years Revealed: 331 more school nurseries, but councils to take over programme From May, ‘councils, rather than schools’ will be invited to propose plans for new places Freddie Whittaker 3d Freddie Whittaker 3d Curriculum Ministers to explore developing ‘more formative assessments’ for oracy Schools minister believes oracy is ‘as foundational as numeracy, literacy and writing’, and that is not just ‘an add… Esmé Kenney 5d Esmé Kenney 5d Pay and conditions Exclusive Not Tata yet – pension scheme handover delayed again IT giant now due to take on the contract from Capita this October – a year later than planned Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5d Politics Journalists shut out of events with ministers and officials Reporters are being banned from conferences where key public servants will speak Samantha Booth 5d Samantha Booth 5d Politics NEU: Teachers’ shift to Greens a ‘wake-up call’ to Labour Daniel Kebede also warns Reform UK would ‘make education a real hostile place for children who are LGBT, black,… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5d Inclusion ‘Real concerns’ health service missing in SEND reforms The white paper thrusts schools into the driving seat of government’s reforms, prompting questions on whether health services will… Samantha Booth 5d Samantha Booth 5d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,031 Older