Opinion: Policy

Ministers must tackle our dangerous safeguarding blind spot

Even with the best will in the world, unregistered alternative provisions operate in a regulatory grey area that leaves...

JL Dutaut
Louis Donald
Opinion: Policy

Mapping the way out of education’s poly-crisis

This report doesn't just call for a system based on professionalism - it models it, and shows us how...

JL Dutaut
Dan Morrow
Opinion: Policy

The schools bill must do more to support displaced children

Labour’s bill promises to deliver needed change for children not in school, but without amendments one vulnerable group could...

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Diana Sutton
Opinion: Policy

How we’ll transform school support from the ground up

Read Association of Education Advisers chair Les Walton's speech to the organisation's annual summit in full as they come...

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Les Walton
Opinion: Policy

How we’ve boosted social mobility in our deprived area

Here’s how we went from persistently low outcomes to the most improved school in the country for disadvantaged students

JL Dutaut
Steve Rogers
Opinion: Policy

Working-class kids don’t need fixing – our system does

Here's how Labour can finally deliver on its decades-long promise of a truly comprehensive and inclusive system - and...

JL Dutaut
Michael Cater
Opinion: Policy

Ministers are wrong to let an app undermine results day

There’s a certain hypocrisy in rolling out an app that will keep kids at home while professing concern about...

JL Dutaut
Jon Bryan
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s bill could tie schools to inequity through uniform

The government’s well-intentioned policy on school uniform could be undermined by failing to grasp its broader interplay with inclusion

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Caroline Barlow and Tess Howard
Opinion: Policy

The House of Lords must protect academy freedoms

Hopes lie with peers that they can prevent the worst of this bill's foreseeable consequences - and its...

JL Dutaut
Meg Powell-Chandler