DfE apologises to academy finance staff over data blunder Contact details for staff at an academy finance professionals event were accidentally shared with other attendees
DfE to provide 1,000 air cleaning units for AP and special schools Unions said all schools should receive air cleaning units based on need, rather than only ones that could afford them
Schools told to hike contributions to boost repairs grant bids Schools must double their contributions to score top marks in CIF bids
Pay rises must be met from schools’ core budgets, minister confirms Robin Walker seeks to reassure leaders spending review settlement will make pressures affordable
Councils set to raid school budgets as £50m improvement grant faces axe The DfE said axing improvement funds and letting councils top-slice school budgets instead meant a ‘smoother transition’ to full academisation
Schools face up to £80m hike in energy costs, Labour warns Party warns fuel price rises could see school spending rocket to £740m
Spending review: What schools can expect as pay freeze lifted School leaders welcome end of pay freeze and new SEND funding, but fear no extra cash for wage rises and a new DfE cost-cutting drive
Government vetoes more academy deals with linked firms 108 academy trust ‘related party transactions’ were blocked in 2020-21, more than twice the previous year’s figures
ESFA probes trust forced to up top-slice after overspend Documents suggest the Oval trust ‘set a deficit budget, miscalculated income…and overspent’, while a new board came in after a row with the diocese