Coping with crisis

Scarred by Grenfell but finding strength in adversity

Principal Anna Jordan says her pupils draw from values of fearlessness despite the 2017 tragedy overshadowing her school Kensington...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Ofsted

MAT CEOs ‘making inspections more adversarial’, Ofsted boss says

Ofsted chief makes plea to sector to stop inspections ‘running hot and bring the temperature down’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Phillipson ‘open’ to academies returning to council oversight

Education secretary also considering plans for LAs to open new schools again

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academy freedoms? ‘I’ve never seen teachers more enslaved’ says school standards tsar

Sir Kevan Collins warns of a 'narrow compliance culture' in some schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Regions group

Intervention model for regional improvement teams revealed

New teams will RAG rate schools for support, draw up 'local area priorities' and use councils for help

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Revealed: 36 leaders to form CST policy advisory group

New panel will help 'shape the policy landscape for school trusts across England'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

We’re putting trust leaders at the heart of policy development

CST's new policy advisory group will provide 'critical, front-line perspectives that will help to shape the policy landscape for...

Freddie Whittaker
Steve Rollett
Academies

Academy conversion grant scrapped and ‘no plans’ for further trust capacity fund cash

Academies body says decisions will make it 'much more difficult' for trusts to support schools in need and will...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
community hubs

United Learning to launch charity to run community hubs

But country's largest trust stresses the initiative won't 'take resource from teaching and learning'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey