Politics

Term-time holidays a ‘small part’ of attendance woes – minister

Catherine McKinnell says she’s focused on children who regularly miss ‘significant amounts of school’

1mo

Politics

A new campaign that puts industry professionals into schools to deliver careers advice has been launched. Career Footsteps, created…

Nicky Phillips

Politics

More than 100 pupils from South Birmingham schools have picked up a Health for Life award for committing to…

Nicky Phillips

Politics

The schools minister, Nick Gibb and former Labour leader Ed Miliband returned to their old schools as part of…

Nicky Phillips

Politics

Alice Barnard starts as the new chief executive of the Edge Foundation on Monday. She takes over from David…

Nicky Phillips

Politics

A primary in Bristol has been crowned the UK’s Literacy School of the Year. St Peter’s Church of England…

Nicky Phillips

Politics

A new resource to help staff tackle the homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying of disabled young people was…

Nicky Phillips

Covid

The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and…

James Carr

Covid

Academy trusts boosted their reserves and surpluses last year despite the upheaval of Covid, official figures show. New Department…

Tom Belger