Holland Park staff and parents take MAT fight to High Court The NEU is backing parents’ bid to stop the standalone academy joining United Learning, claiming consultation was flawed
Council MAT trial next year – but caps on number and size The DfE will ‘test the concept’ of local authority multi-academy trusts, inviting councils to join a small trial
DfE to get new suspension powers for ‘unsafe’ private schools Unsafe private school providers risk suspension and jail, while loopholes allowing unregistered schools will be closed
Herrington: ‘We’ll miss targets if trusts act in their own interest’ Meeting literacy and numeracy targets will require academies’ and councils cooperating, says national schools commissioner
DfE finalises its climate change strategy: What schools need to know Every school will have a climate lead, and ‘sustainable’ tests will be developed
White paper: What academy shakeup means for trusts, councils and schools Trusts should have 10+ schools, councils will run academies and good schools may exit trusts in shakeup of ‘messy’ system
DfE must ‘urgently’ overhaul guidance after ‘disturbing’ strip search of black schoolgirl School staff had ‘insufficient focus’ on safeguarding, report finds
Revealed: The winners of RSC advisory board elections Results were delayed by more than two months, after a mid-election boundary review
The head taking on PFI firms over new school ‘riddled’ with leaks Newman RC College held back funds from PFI firms and threatened legal action against a council over repeated building woes