Teacher workload, staffing shortages and competing priorities are stretching schools’ capacity to provide mentors for trainee teachers, a survey has found. In the latest...
The ‘vertical wall’ learning curve we encountered during the Covid pandemic means we now know how to protect children and pre-empt misinformation, says Hannah...
Teachers and support staff are meeting in Brighton this week as the National Education Union (NEU) holds its annual conference. Members of the NASUWT...
Ministers have U-turned on plans to cancel three primary free schools after receiving “compelling new evidence” of why they are needed. Just before Christmas,...
The government has insisted it is still consulting on proposed changes to the SEND appeals system, despite its own lawyers previously saying ministers have...
England’s largest council may be forced to cut staff who support schools with the anti-terrorism Prevent programme after the government slashed funding. Schools and...
Trust bosses are lobbying council chiefs to cut “unfair” support staff pension contributions, as leaders eye new savings to help weather the expected financial...
Whitehall is continuing to tighten its grip on councils’ SEND functions by forcing them to agree to prioritise mainstream specialist places or face having...
Absence rates improved in the last academic year, but the overall attendance gap for poorer pupils reached the highest level since current records began....