ESFA

12 ESFA staff get £50k+ exit packages amid restructure

Annual accounts of funding agency also reveal how £5.8m in debts owed by academies have been written-off

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

DfE delays 32.5-hour week expectation to 2024

End-of-term announcement made 'in recognition of the pressures facing schools'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

School with RAAC ‘might not be repaired for four years’

Pupils currently being bussed to separate school as primary shut for months

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson and Jessica Hill
Governance

4 in 5 governors fear for the financial future of their schools

One in ten will set deficit budget or go cap-in-hand to the ESFA to balance income and expenditure, finds...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

Teacher pay: What schools need to know about the 6.5% offer

Your questions answered after DfE accepts STRB reccomendation on pay for 2023-24

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Use of agency workers to cover strikes quashed in High Court

Government's approach found to be 'so unfair as to be unlawful and, indeed, irrational'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

STRB report: 6.5% teacher pay rise, but DfE will only fund 3%

Unions will recommend their members accept 'properly funded' pay deal

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Teacher training framework changes will only be ‘moderate’, DfE says

It follows a review of the evidence underpinning the initial teacher training and early career frameworks

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

Coroner considering ‘enhanced’ inquest into Ruth Perry death

Decision due in August on whether to hold article 2 inquest - for cases where the state has 'failed...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker