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The Legal Leader

The accountability implications of ‘the Hillsborough Law’

New legislation making its way through parliament will place new ethical responsibilities on schools and trusts

JL Dutaut

Esther Maxwell and Kamal Chauhan

Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

Why we’re getting parents dreadfully wrong, why RISE needs to raise its game, and why Ofsted can only take…

JL Dutaut

Various

Opinion: Accountability

How to make the most of Ofsted’s new nominee role

Schools can’t afford to allow this new feature of Ofsted’s framework to go unnoticed. It can transform the inspection…

JL Dutaut

Kerry Boffey

The Research Leader

Our national wellbeing problems require local solutions

The 3,000 young voices represented in our new report add surprising local context to national concerns about youth mental…

JL Dutaut

Vivienne Avery

Opinion: Inclusion

Why making 3,500 home visits this term was time well spent

Belonging, school improvement and home-school relationships don’t need convoluted policy answers. They need time

JL Dutaut

Susan Matheson

Opinion: Curriculum

How morphology can help students avoid ‘the Year 7 dip’

The year 7 dip is beginning to rear its head already. Here’s how leaders can plug a gap in…

JL Dutaut

Romany Heartford

Opinion: Accountability

Special schools will need to raise their game – and so will inspectors

The new framework requires us to provide better evidence, but that will come to nought if inspectors aren’t trained…

JL Dutaut

Martin Lonergan

Opinion: Solutions

Five ways to beat the autumn blues with optimistic realism

As excitement about the new academic year invariably gives way to the brutal reality of the long autumn term,…

JL Dutaut

Rachel Johnson

Opinion: Accountability

The quiet Ofsted plan that could revolutionise inspection fairness

What could become Ofsted’s most significant reform is one everyone seems to have missed

JL Dutaut

Steve Wren

Must Read

Opinion

Why it’s time for a closer look at home-to-school transport

Ensuring pupils arrive at school ready to learn begins with the journey that gets them there

Freddie Whittaker

Vicky Davis

SEND

What schools say they do well (and not so well) on SEND

Self-evaluation data from 850 schools presents rich insights for ministers as they finalise SEND reforms, says one expert

John Dickens

Gary Aubin

Opinion

Fixing the retention ‘leaky bucket’ with a wellbeing strategy

Improve the drivers of workplace wellbeing, and you improve the sustainability of the workforce

Freddie Whittaker

Gemma Scotcher

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut

Melanie Renowden

ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut

David Spendlove

EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens

3mo

Sam Sykes

3mo

Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut

James Handscombe

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