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New compliance checks to spot schools flouting Baker clause

But those breaking the rules won’t be named and shamed

Another university technical college faces uncertain future despite emergency government funding

The future of another university technical college hangs in the balance, despite it receiving emergency funding. East London UTC was given its second financial notice to improve last month – after a £375,000 government bailout last year. It also chalked up a £1.8 million deficit in 2020. The college’s 2019-20 accounts show the Department for […]

DfE to toughen up Baker Clause and extend careers requirement to year 7s

Schools will face “tougher formal action” if they don’t comply with a requirement to allow other providers access to talk about study options with their pupils. The government’s skills for jobs white paper, published today, has also revealed the requirement to provide careers education will be extended to year 7s. The government wants to make sure […]

Ofsted raps first school over Baker clause

A school has been rapped by Ofsted for flouting the Baker clause, as the inspectorate begins to police the controversial rule. Leicestershire-based King Edward VII Science and Sport College was rated ‘inadequate’ in a report published on Wednesday following an inspection in January. While Ofsted has suspended publishing reports during the coronavirus outbreak, it does […]

DfE took no action against schools that ignored new careers duty

The Baker clause has been labelled a “law without teeth” after it emerged the government did not take any action against schools for non-compliance in the first year of its existence. The Department for Education also admitted it only wrote to half of the trusts it originally claimed to have contacted in relation to non-compliance. […]

Baker clause update: DfE gears up to start ‘direct intervention’ in schools

Schools could face “direct intervention” from the Department for Education from September if they have failed to allow further education providers to promote vocational education to their pupils. The move is a part of a crackdown on non-compliance with the controversial ‘Baker clause’, an amendment to the 2017 Technical and Further Education Act, which came […]

DfE takes action to force schools to follow the ‘Baker Clause’

The Department for Education has begun to intervene in schools which fail in their legal duty to allow training organisations the chance to speak to pupils about technical qualifications and apprenticeships. Lord Kenneth Baker (pictured), the former education secretary behind the so-called “Baker Clause” obliging schools to introduce pupils to technical education, told Schools Week […]

Report schools that don’t let you talk to pupils, minister tells colleges

Schools that flout their new legal obligation to allow training organisations the chance to speak to pupils about technical qualifications and apprenticeships should be reported to the government, the skills minister has said. In her monthly column for Schools Week’s sister paper FE Week, Anne Milton said further education providers should report ANY non-compliance with […]

Schools: you must tell pupils about apprenticeships!

After news broke that only two of the 10 largest multi-academy trusts are actually implementing the so-called Baker Clause, which requires schools to allow technical education providers access to their pupils, the man who fought for the clause in the first place explains why it is so vital that every school complies A recent survey […]