Councils with SEND cash black holes to get new cost-cutter visits Ministers ‘laying the foundations’ for new reforms under delayed SEND review
DfE restructure delays advisory board election results Ministers are considering adding a ninth regional schools commissioner
Council tells heads to ‘self-manage’ Covid outbreaks Local authority tells schools to stop reporting Covid cases amid an ‘increase demand on public health services’
DfE considers council-run MATs to achieve academy ambition Ministers ‘open to slightly different models of partnership’ as schools white paper looms
MATs gain schools and record cash boost amid Covid Academies boasted record levels of spare cash and continued to expand amid the pandemic, Kreston’s annual benchmarking report shows
DfE trialling ‘real-time’ attendance tracker to cut absences ‘Less burdensome’ automated data collection hailed as ‘first step to more efficient approach’
Heads want tutor money directly after NTP ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ Staff ‘don’t have the capacity’ to sign pupils up to flagship programme
Record high of 1 in 25 pupils off with Covid as confirmed cases double A quarter of schools have more than 15 per cent of teachers off – nearly double the rate in September
Ministers urged to review exams plan amid covid disruption School leaders concerned ‘trust in the fairness of exams process will falter’