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Parents to get more of their money back from sQuid

Company said it had ‘reviewed its refund policy’ after Schools Week revealed parents’ concerns

More heads cut school trips amid funding crisis

Sutton Trust research finds steep rises in schools cutting back on teaching assistants and IT equipment

The Brexit ‘minefield’: how immigration changes threaten school jobs and trips

Some migrant pupils risk exclusion from school trips and European staff risk losing jobs under post-Brexit immigration reforms. As the EU settlement scheme deadline expires this week, Schools Week investigates wider Brexit disruption to schools, from rising building costs to recruitment and travel woes. Julie McCulloch, the policy director at ASCL, the school leaders’ union, […]

Coronavirus: Schools paying out thousands for cancelled PGL trips

Schools are paying out thousands of pounds to parents in order to cover the costs of cancelled trips as the popular PGL travel provider refuses to offer refunds. Education travel providers have been forced to cancel trips due to the coronavirus pandemic – with the government advising visits overseas be called-off even before it closed […]

Coronavirus: Schools ‘should be able to claim’ for cancelled trips, says insurers’ body

Schools “should be able to claim” for cancelled trips abroad, the body that represents insurance companies has said, after the government advised the public to avoid all non-essential international travel. Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, told Parliament today that he had “taken the decision to advise British nationals against non-essential travel, globally, for an initial […]