Health and safety watchdog to inspect schools’ asbestos management DfE data suggests more than eight in 10 schools have the harmful material on their sites
Ofsted job cut inspection warning, plus 9 more annual account findings Plans to slim down the civil service could have ‘implications’ for new inspection work
Assess wellbeing risk of strip searches before calling police, schools told DfE updates guidance on searching, screening and confiscation in wake of Child Q scandal
Quince appointed schools minister as caretaker roles confirmed Brendan Clarke-Smith gets children’s brief in shake-up following mass resignations
School attendance hits five-month low, workforce absence soars Nearly one in 10 secondary school teachers were off last week, DfE estimates
Half of schools will miss out on rebuilds – as only 61 more handed cash More than 1,100 schools applied for Boris Johnson’s school rebuilding programme, but numbers are capped at 500
Ministers have ‘limited’ agenda to improve teaching, says ex-DfE boss ‘Structural reorganisation is easy,’ says former permanent secretary Jonathan Slater, who warns of ‘disconnect’ from frontline teachers
September 2022 Ofsted inspection changes: What schools need to know Curriculum grace period ends – but new grade descriptor ‘will prevent cliff edge’
‘A new low’: Chartered College lodges complaint over swearing minister Sector leader writes to government as fellow Conservative MP accuses Andrea Jenkyns of ‘appalling conduct’