RISE teams

New school accountability regime: attainment checks and profiles

Government has confirmed new school profiles will be trialled this year, with RISE teams to oversee 'informal' attainment checks

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Attendance

Schools should take ‘proactive’ action to get kids back to class, new rules state

Everything leaders need to know from new statutory guidance on children missing education

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
PFI

PFI handovers: Council stumps up £3.5m, but repairs still left waiting

Stoke's case shows councils ill-prepared for end of PFI deals

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Lockdown: The schools forced to take emergency measures

Union calls for 'comprehensive' guidance as leaders warn of communications difficulties during incidents

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
RAAC

School delays return to class amid RAAC concerns

Long tail of crumby concrete crisis re-emerges as 'questions' raised over 7-year-old mitigation

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Jack Dyson
Holiday activities and food programme

Holiday activities programme extended for another 3 years

Department will use £600m from its three-year spending review settlement to extend scheme to 2029

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Poorer pupils do better in more disadvantaged schools, report says

Researchers also find worst-performing areas for disadvantaged kids likely to have more poor white youngsters

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
A-level results 2025

‘This is not about school quality’: how the north east fell behind

Calls for 'urgent' action to battle 'entrenched divides' as regional attainment gap grows again. Schools Week investigates

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Movers and Shakers

Tim Coulson named new DfE regions group director general

Unity Schools Partnership CEO announced as John Edwards's replacement in key DfE position

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson