£22.5m announced for after-school clubs to help ‘isolated’ kids Up to 400 schools will get a share of the three-year investment to boost extra-curricular activities
Pioneering free school censured over ‘inaccurate’ budget forecasts Notice to improve issued to one of England’s first free schools amid string of rule breaches
Schools say they need more funding to hit 2030 tech target One-third of schools say they will be unable to hit new technology targets in the next five years
Post-16 AP funding gap exposed as school raids reserves AP school forced to use £180k of reserves to launch sixth form, reigniting calls for post-16 transition funding
Government lacks ‘coherent plan’ to boost teacher recruitment MPs also tell ministers to assess how effective pay rises are at retaining staff amid concerns over 6,500 teacher target
Enforcement ‘first’, legal threats and place ‘caps’: Councils reveal admission woes Watchdog report shows widespread clashes between councils and academy trusts as Labour plans school admission reforms
‘It’s refreshing Labour isn’t thrusting random vision on sector’, says Francis Curriculum review chair says government’s approach means her review won’t ‘tip the sector over’
DfE officials ‘concerned’ over school building impact of Grenfell bans Warning government action against firms could hit ‘every’ school project, amid ‘concerning’ DfE emails
MAT backtracks on ‘dangerous’ pension changes, unions claim England’s biggest MAT will no longer roll out controversial pension plan from September, NAHT says