Key proposals from Schools Week’s manifesto for change Practical ideas from the sector’s best and brightest
Starmer cabinet would be most comprehensively educated ever More than 8 in 10 members of the shadow cabinet went to comprehensive schools
Labour will ‘turn the tide’ on child poverty, says ex-PM Brown Rayner also says issue will be ‘responsibility of the whole cabinet’ to resolve
Emergency capital cash handouts soar to £12m after funding squeeze Funding for urgent work jumps 300% in 12 months, as experts warn figures are ‘sign of the times’
Lack of MAT get-out clause sees strikes, petitions and open letters Unrest at MATs shows allowing schools to leave trusts would create ‘much healthier relationships’, claims union rep, but how could it work?
ASCL: Base Ofsted report cards on ‘slim set of statutory standards’ The heads’ union sets out key principles of how Labour’s proposed report card should work if they win next week’s election
Enough spare classrooms to meet Labour nursery pledge Party has said it would spend £140 million converting spare classrooms into nurseries at 3,334 primary schools
‘Children are our future and it’s for them that Tim dedicated his life’ Hundreds gather to remember the late Sir Tim Brighouse
NPQs: Trusts reveal viability fears after courses slashed Leaders fear cash-strapped schools which miss out on free NPQs will be unable to afford the training