Government will explore “whether we should be developing more formative assessments around oracy”, the schools minister has said. Georgia Gould also said the aim...
Journalists are being banned from conferences where ministers, senior government civil servants and advisers are slated to speak. Three events in recent weeks have...
Government SEND reforms don’t go far enough to force health services to deliver support, experts have warned. MPs warned ministers last year the health...
Local authority leaders defied DfE pressure to swap AP free school projects for spending on mainstream provision because they know some children need a...
Vicky Beer, the Department for Education’s longest-serving regional director, is set to leave the role after 11 years in post. The senior civil servant...
The government’s promise to write off almost all of councils’ historic SEND deficits fails to consider “burgeoning” home-to-school transport costs, MPs have warned. The...
Schools should stock spare allergy adrenaline pens, government has proposed in new landmark guidance, but unions have warned this should be met with sufficient...