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Education APPG chair broke transparency rules, says watchdog

Parliamentary commissioner for standards finds BESA-backed committee failed to publish income and expenditure statements

Academy trust body instructed top lawyer over schools bill

Producing bill before regulatory review was completed was ‘huge legislative error’, says CST chief Leora Cruddas

DfE will ‘prioritise’ parts of shelved schools bill

Schools bill axed in current form with most academy legislation shelved, but ‘priority’ proposals like out-of-school register still on table

Minister denies education recovery ‘catalogue of chaos’ (but claims she doesn’t know why catch-up tsar resigned)

The government’s education recovery programme is not a “catalogue of chaos”, a minister has insisted, as she claimed she did not know why catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins resigned over the package. A Labour motion calling for more generous investment in education recovery passed this afternoon by 224 votes to zero after all but one […]

40 MPs join protest over looming £4m in cuts to funding for deaf pupils

Campaigners held a protest outside parliament this week and met with the children’s minister to warn of the impact of £4 million in planned cuts to support for deaf children in schools. Research by the National Deaf Children’s Society has found that nearly a third of England’s local authorities are intending to slash support as […]