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Government will explore “whether we should be developing more formative assessments around oracy”, the schools minister has said. Georgia Gould also said the aim...
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Journalists are being banned from conferences where ministers, senior government civil servants and advisers are slated to speak. Three events in recent weeks have...
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The handover of the teachers’ pensions scheme to an Indian IT giant has been delayed for a second time. Tata Consultancy Services was due...
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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...
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The schools minister has issued a rallying cry for expert SEND professionals who quit their jobs to return and staff the £1.8 billion “experts...
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The long-trailed and much-leaked SEND white paper has been published. The government is billing it as a “radical expansion of rights”. Yet on first...
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Schools could face increased workload and become “the eye of the storm” on SEND disputes, lawyers have warned, as more accountability shifts onto headteachers’...
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Private schools wanting to convert to academies are “left in the dark” due to a lack of guidance on the process, a new report...
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Academy bosses are urging ministers to give them “clarity” over whether recently dumped trust growth funds will come back from the dead. Labour’s schools...
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The white paper’s “experts at hand” plan is positive, while hints of reform for school performance measures echo the EPI’s feelings about current shortcomings,...
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Kevan Collins has been appointed as the education secretary’s delivery adviser with a focus on SEND reform and reviewing how the department engages with...
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Schools will no longer be publicly compared to the national “average” for their progress scores in a proposed overhaul of government league tables. Instead,...
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Pupils’ special educational needs will be met through a new layered system of support, with education, health and care plans reserved for only the...
