Teacher strikes

Teacher pay strike savings to fund iPads and energy bills

Schools and trusts plan to reinvest £128m windfall from salary deductions in their workforce

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Labour’s Ofsted plans ‘logical evolution’, says Spielman

Chief inspector says it's 'completely rational for a potential alternative government to be thinking about things like this'

Freddie Whittaker
Billy Camden and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Treasury expects schools to charge parents for wraparound childcare

Government tells Schools Week it expects 'most schools will be able to deliver the provision self-sufficiently' from 2026

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics, Schools

Budget 2023: Hunt wants all primaries to provide ‘wraparound’ childcare

New 'ambition' that all children are able to access 8am to 6pm childcare provision in school by 2026, but...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Strikes: DfE ups the ante with warning teachers could miss a deal

Unions fear divide and conquer approach after general secretaries are called-in separately

Freddie Whittaker
John Dickens and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group

Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies, ASCL Conference

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

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Schools report children as young as 10 to police over social media abuse

Shocking incidents uncovered reveal the scale and severity of issues schools are now dealing with

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
SEND review

SEND contextual league tables plan shelved

DfE claims proposals had 'mixed feedback', with concerns it could 'risk generating perverse incentives'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth