Schools
SIMS
Investigation

How schools are caught up in a £200m MIS ‘turf war’

Smaller MIS firms are pouncing amid a record exodus from SIMS, with more choice but also more controversy in...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools
The schools adjudicator has ruled a school can increase its pupil numbers after complaints from local heads

Heads revolt over planned expansion of London school

Council intervenes in plan for secondary in neighbouring borough to increase its official capacity

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Another UTC to close after failing to attract students

The Watford UTC will be the 13th university technical college to shut, in a fresh blow for the programme

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Schools
Exclusive

‘Go further’ on school social care reform, says review author

Schools need a seat at the safeguarding 'table', says Josh MacAlister, after government kicks reforms down the road

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools
A review of Prevent warns there is not enough oversight of schools' compliance with the duty

Prevent review: Schools need ‘independent’ monitoring and better training

Shawcross review of counter-extremism duty warns of 'ambiguity' of how schools' compliance is monitored

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools
The DfE has published new guidance on absences due to mental health issues

Evidence not needed for short mental health absence, says DfE

Government says GPs are 'unlikely to be able to offer such evidence to support one-off absences related to mental...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

HPV inoculation rates lag behind pre-Covid levels

Data shows take-up rates are 18 percentage points lower for year 8 girls than before the pandemic

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Bucks’ support staff pay rise falls way behind national deal

Council offers staff a rise of just 2%, when the national deal was 10.5% for lowest earners and 4%...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Social care review school proposals: What the DfE has said it will do

DfE only commits to a consultation on main school proposals from MacAlister review

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker