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
Schools

Oak founders abandon national academy

At least seven of Oak’s original 11 trust curriculum partners have snubbed the new quango by choosing not to...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
ASCL Conference

‘Being a school leader has never felt more challenging’

Geoff Barton on pay talks, workload, Keegan’s no-show and choosing the 'right time to leave'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

What would it take to pause next week’s teacher strikes?

With government and unions still at an impasse over pay, we look at what each side wants in order...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker