New legal duty on school staff to report child sexual abuse Home Office outlines new safeguarding requirement – but few details confirmed and no date for introduction yet
School mobile phone ‘ban’ guidance: What you need to know DfE publishes non-statutory guidance it says will give ‘hard-working teachers the tools to take action’
Pupils share food with classmates amid cost of living crisis Poll for the NEU finds 37% of children know someone who ‘sometimes does not have enough food to eat at lunch’
Set Gatsby-style benchmarks for extracurricular activities, says EPI Targets needed to address ‘concerning inequalities in access’, says think tank
Mental health: Four-week CAMHS wait pledge up in the air Consultation on plans warned of ‘unintended consequences’
Primary head named as first school safeguarding tsar Jon Le Fevre will help the DfE explore whether schools should become a fourth safeguarding partner
Teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates: What you need to know Degree apprenticeship route into the profession will launch next year with a pilot for 150 maths trainees
NPQs not up to scratch for increasingly ‘complex’ headship Development programmes for heads and executive leaders lack the ‘full extent of skills and knowledge’ needed, report warns
Competition watchdog pulled into MIS dispute, again Turf war between largest school management information system providers takes another twist