Mental health

Collapsing mental health support pits parents against schools

Some parents reported for 'fabricating' mental illness

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Mental health

Revealed: The rising costs for schools of educational psychologists

Many councils that once provided services for free now charge, investigation finds

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Mental health

Thousands on waiting lists as trusts struggle to foot mental health bill

Schools have increasingly sought to fund more support themselves

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Schools

Councils cut primary school places as baby boom flattens

Pupil numbers are expected to fall by around 300,000 over the next five years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Mental health

Special investigation: How collapsing mental health services are failing children

Four-month investigation reveals the devastating toll on families and schools

Samantha Booth
Jess Staufenberg and Samantha Booth
Mental health

Special schools ‘bursting at seams’ – but DfE doesn’t collect the data

Heads say the system is 'completely overwhelmed'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

‘Elite’ sixth forms have fewer poor students, study finds

Ministers want more sixth forms that send pupils to top universities as part of 'levelling-up' agenda

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Eight become nine as DfE shakes up RSC regions

London to get new RSC and other areas redrawn to align regions with rest of government

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap

Gap for poorest pupils fails to improve since 2011

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth