Head plans to refuse Ofsted inspectors entry following Ruth Perry death Head tells Schools Week: ‘I don’t know what I’m doing, and I could lose my job, but I feel like if I don’t stand up for this then the system will never change’
Solutions: How an academy trust slashed its supply costs One school has reduced its spend from £461,665 to £5,621 in four years
DfE snubs Braverman pledge for new blasphemy guidance The under-fire home secretary had promised new advice amid row over damaged Quran school pupil suspensions
Call to halt subsidy cut as NTP levels out tutoring playing field Research published by The Sutton Trust shows the proportion of pupils accessing any form of tutoring is almost level between the most and least deprived
Support staff could strike as unions plan ballots over pay deal Unison and GMB are urging members to reject employers’ ‘final’ pay offer, threatening walkouts in maintained schools and academies
Most schools didn’t complete £17m early language catch-up scheme Ministers announced in 2021 that every primary school would be offered support through the scheme
Call for transparency around rare Ofsted reinspections School of leading trust, whose CEO sits on Ofsted’s board, was one of just 37 to get a reinspection in past four years
‘Concerned’ DfE vows to back heads after school policy protests Wave of protests over uniform and toilet policies see police called in, with a girl arrested at one school and TikTok video urging pupils to ‘trash classrooms’
Starmer pledges ‘education system reform’, but few details yet Labour leader promises long-term missions would end ‘sticking-plaster politics’, but union says more cash needed too