SEND

Educational psychologists call off strikes after pay offer accepted

Union accepts deal worth 4% from this September and £1,925 backdated to last year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Mental health

Create school ‘wellbeing supervisors’ network, says coalition of leaders

Vulnerable students 'still being let down' by mental health support and insufficient availability of care

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Hinds: ‘I was wrong’ on teacher golden handcuffs

Schools minister also reveals changes to the early career framework and more details on non-grad teaching apprenticeship

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Leaders warn against sudden changes as Lords call to scrap EBacc

Schools sector 'prone to swinging from one end of the pendulum to another', peers warned after report calls for...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
School funding

Deprived schools have faced double the budget cuts, study warns

Extra funding for disadvantaged pupils has shrunk over the last decade

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Schools sound warning over vaping devices laced with drugs

Concerns follow reports that pupils from at least two schools were rushed to hospital after inhaling vapes laced with...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
School buildings

Government contractors signed off on unsafe £45m schools

DfE admits technical advisers who rubber-stamped buildings now facing demolition were its own contractors

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Amy Walker
Schools

Schools to get advice on selling off land to fund vital rebuilds

DfE property arm LocatED plans guidance but land disposals fall to four-year low

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

DfE’s using ‘influencers’ to boost school attendance

The Department for Education also revealed in its response to MPs that the attendance data collection will become mandatory...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth