Aside from being a statutory obligation, teachers should see continued professional development (CPD) as an integral (and integrated) component of their role. A recent...
Chief executive, Saffron Academy Trust 19 May 2024, 5:00 Young lives, big ambitions: Transforming life chances for vulnerable children and teens By Anne Longfield...
A Surrey primary school is demanding a “lessons learnt review” from Ofsted after eight inspectors visited three times over two academic years. Inspectors first...
The Department for Education has been accused of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” after it emerged that ministers raided capital coffers for £250 million...
Increasing fines for parents whose children skip school will do nothing to cut unauthorised absence, the government’s new attendance tsar said, as he outlined...
Ministers have appointed the first SEND “improvement adviser” at a council in negotiations for a multi-million pound government bailout to stave off bankruptcy. Bournemouth,...
Ministers have published guidance on managing school attendance that will become mandatory from this September. It includes new absence fine rates, thresholds at which...
Almost 120,000 children were “missing” from education at some point last year, an increase of almost a quarter. Children missing education is an official...