Schools

Poverty: Trusts spend six-figure sums to support ‘crisis’ families

News comes amid calls for chancellor Jeremy Hunt to hand out more education cash in next week's budget

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher pay

DfE raided capital coffers for £250m towards teacher pay grant

Funding also came from tutoring underspend and 16 to 19 cash, but DfE refuses to give more details

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Bigger absence fines won’t solve the problem, attendance tsar admits

Rob Tarn speaks to Schools Week about his plans for the new role

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher pay

Keegan calls for return to ‘more sustainable’ teacher pay rises

Education secretary tells teacher pay body that schools only have 1.2 per cent headroom in budgets

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

The 10 new attendance rules schools need to know about

Ministers publish new guidance that will become statutory from September

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Number of children ‘missing education’ rises a quarter

117,000 children were not registered at a school and not receiving a suitable education elsewhere at some point last...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Absence fines rise to £80 and daily data mandatory from September

Penalties for unauthorised absence will hit £80, and all schools will have to join attendance tracker scheme

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Persistent absence risks children’s futures. Here’s how we’ll address it

Raising fines and making guidance and daily data submissions mandatory will boost early intervention and a support-first approach, says...

Freddie Whittaker
Damian Hinds
Schools

‘Elite’ Star and Eton sixth forms reveal ‘clearing house’ careers role

Partnership between academy trust and top private school also opens new 'think and do' tank

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter