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Calls for school complaints review as 80% of leaders report abuse

Leaders pushed to the brink of quitting with 70% threatened by parents and one in 10 attacked

Stop abusing my teachers, trust CEO tells parents

Mowbray Education Trust’s CEO warned she faces losing talented staff over ‘personally abusive’ and ‘sometimes threatening’ messages

Schools report children as young as 10 to police over social media abuse

Shocking incidents uncovered reveal the scale and severity of issues schools are now dealing with

Teacher misconduct probes now taking 20 months to resolve

Probes into serious misconduct are taking 8 months longer than DfE target, leaving teachers, schools and others affected in limbo

Abuse inquiry demands tougher school safeguarding rules

The indendent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) wants to fix ‘shortcomings’ in safeguarding training, data-sharing, checks and sanctions

Revised safety and sexual harassment guidance: 8 things you need to know

The government has issued beefed-up guidance on tackling sexual misconduct in schools, warning downplaying it as “banter” can normalise abuse and “over-friendly” staff should be reported. The Department for Education has published a draft of revised statutory guidance on keeping children safe in education, with more than 60 updates to the previous version released only […]

Urgent action demanded on home education after deaths of ‘invisible’ children

The government must pay “urgent attention” to safeguarding for pupils educated at home, an expert has warned, amid a probe into the deaths of three children. The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel revealed it had been notified of 15 incidents of “serious harm” involving home-educated children over the past year in England. Three children died, […]