Political impartiality guidance: What schools need to know DfE says new document will help schools meet their existing legal duties
All 5 to 11-year-olds to be offered Covid vaccine Javid accepts JCVI recommendation of ‘non-urgent offer’ of paediatric dose to all primary-aged pupils
Everything you need to know about the ESFA review The agency will be stripped of academy oversight, lose hundreds of staff and face a governance shakeup after the Bell review
DfE publishes ESFA review and reorganisation plans Government confirms move to nine RSC regions and for a new ‘dedicated’ schools group at the DfE
DfE ‘pauses’ diocese academy drive after legal challenge Unions have challenged the DfE’s decision to approve Catholic Diocese of Hallam conversions before governing bodies had voted
Top-grade school gets ‘inadequate’ after 15 years without inspection Thomas Mills High School was visited in November after being exempt since 2006
Let schools quit trusts and create super-regulator to complete academisation, ministers told Ex-adviser also calls for ‘range of new powers’ for councils under fully-academised system
Unions launch legal action against DfE over diocese conversions Unions claim DfE rules have been ‘abused or ignored’ to help the Diocese of Hallam academise all its school
Academies system has given politicians too much power, says ex-DfE boss Ex-permanent secretary says academisation has left school system ‘more centralised than it should be’