Revealed: 24 ‘priority’ areas to split £40m improvement cash DfE also almost doubles academy trust growth funding for the next three years
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
Council-run academy trusts get the green light in schools white paper DfE also to set out new maths and English target for secondary schools
School where girl was strip-searched faces legal action Lawyers representing Child Q launch civil proceedings against the Metropolitan Police and an unnamed school
Schools ‘asked to offer’ 32.5-hour week by 2023 – and Ofsted will check Expectation is equivalent to a six and a half hour day, which most schools already provide
Randstad: Reducing catch-up challenge to a political football is wrong The delivery of NTP has come with challenges, but we are committed to growing the programme, writes Karen Guthrie
£64m to make grammar schools more inclusive – but the gap widens Despite pandemic surge in free school meals rates, grammars given expansion cash have fallen further behind
Don’t let your energy contracts expire, DfE warns schools Buying energy out of contract will be ‘more expensive’, leaders told
Best-paid trust CEOs’ wages rise fastest, but some rein in pay The highest-paid have seen bigger pay rises than the rest, with some academy trusts reining in pay even as a government crackdown stalls