The government has pledged write off 90 per cent of councils’ historic SEND deficits – estimated to be worth £5 billion. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said the deficits on ...

The DfE stressed it is “has learned a lot” from the first phase of the programme and is in a “much better place now in terms ...

On current trends, thousands of schools currently rated ‘good’ are likely to fall into this category. It won’t please them. According to Ofsted’s rubric, the next grade up, ‘strong standard’, marks ...

Screens incrementally take up more of children’s time than they did a couple of decades ago, when they barely existed. One in four children finish primary school obese, so let’s take a bet that ...

The House of Lords is gearing up for a showdown with MPs over academy admissions and school phone bans, after peers passed a slew of Conservative amendments to the government’s landmark schools bill.

One of England’s first private finance initiative (PFI) schools struck a secret deal for taxpayers to cover a £1 million ...

The prominent boss of a troubled academy trust saddled with a multi-million-pound deficit has resigned following a leave of absence. Schools Week previously revealed how the Arthu ...

A recruitment agency is reviewing its adverts after coming under fire for offering schools free outsourced applications for ...

School nurseries lack the staff, space or demand to offer more wraparound, holiday or pre-school childcare, particularly in ...

While suspensions have increased by a fifth in recent years, just one per cent of 5,020 teachers polled recently by Teacher ...

Since Drinkall’s departure last May, CFO James Nicholson has been running the trust on an interim basis. He said he is “excited to work with Warwick”. With 43 schools under its banner, GLF is the 12th ...

Stephen Kingdom, the DfE’s deputy director of SEND in 2014, said the last reforms mainly reflected problems with the “school ...