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SEND review: Ministers want special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) in senior leadership teams and to inform schools’ 'strategic direction'

SEND review alternative provision reforms will create a new 'three-tier' system of support, with a focus on early intervention in mainstream schools

Ministers will consult on changing performance league tables to incentivise mainstream schools to be 'more inclusive' under plans announced in the SEND review

Ministers plan to bring large chunks of the SEND system under 'central control' with new national standards that take power from local authorities

Zahawi compares challenge of winning over academy sceptics to converting anti-vaxxers – saying he cares about outcomes, not which badge is above the door

Sector leaders are split over plans to let some good schools break away from failing academy trusts, with officials facing a headache over 'divorce clause'

Ex-DfE adviser: Limited details over standards for academy trusts and tougher 'statutory intervention powers' are the 'biggest question mark in the whole paper'

Schools will have to raid coffers to pay for tutoring when government subsidies end, with expectation that pupil premium is also spent on literacy and numeracy

Two-thirds of 'coasting' schools earmarked for potential government intervention from September are already academies, new analysis shows

Schools are sending year groups home and 'tripling up' classes in dining halls as up to a third of their staff test positive for Covid