Schools

DfE seeks to ‘improve’ school reporting on pupil premium spend

Department seeks schools' views as influential committee calls for better follow-up with settings that fail to report on pupil...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Calls for school complaints review as 80% of leaders report abuse

Leaders pushed to the brink of quitting with 70% threatened by parents and one in 10 attacked

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Snap, crackle and flop? Breakfast clubs have rocky launch

Early adopter school considered pulling out, with concerns over schools losing club income

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

DfE opens re-accreditation round for teacher training providers

Move comes after over a quarter of ITT providers lost their accreditation in the government's bruising market review

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Academy trusts

Trust’s growth plan (partially) knocked back

Just 6 out of 19 school applications were accepted by the DfE's East Midlands advisory board last month

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Coroner concern over school swimming lessons after boy’s death

Coroner warns some primaries are not providing swimming lessons despite it being curriculum requirement

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Private schools

Private special schools charging councils £100k fees failed standards checks

Private equity-owned independent special schools which charge councils fees of up to £131,000 a year are among hundreds that...

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Schools

Free school gets £500k government bailout after wage increase

Private school-turned-academy hit with budget problems after increasing support staff pay to national rates

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Accountability

Who are the ‘stuck’ schools in line for £100k support?

Most are already academies, and a third won't be eligible because of recent 'structural change'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker