Schools

Treasury expects schools to charge parents for wraparound childcare

Government tells Schools Week it expects 'most schools will be able to deliver the provision self-sufficiently' from 2026

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics, Schools

Budget 2023: Hunt wants all primaries to provide ‘wraparound’ childcare

New 'ambition' that all children are able to access 8am to 6pm childcare provision in school by 2026, but...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE will consider new requirement to teach about suicide prevention

Minister: Mental health will be 'priority area' in the upcoming review of relationships, sex and health education guidance

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group

Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Home Office U-turn on blasphemy guidance

Department now 'looking to draft new guidance' after Quran incident

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

CEO’s mission to make AI a force for good in classrooms

Priya Lakhani is at pains to express how many of the achievements in her colourful career were driven by...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Schools

Schools report children as young as 10 to police over social media abuse

Shocking incidents uncovered reveal the scale and severity of issues schools are now dealing with

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Oak founders abandon national academy

At least seven of Oak’s original 11 trust curriculum partners have snubbed the new quango by choosing not to...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

School rebuilding plans may not ‘eliminate’ risk, top civil servant admits

DfE officials grilled about the condition of the school estate and government catch-up efforts

Amy Walker
Amy Walker