Schools should 'obsess' about attendance but need more support to provide counselling and intervene after exclusions, the children's commissioner has said
The government has announced the funding rate for universal infant free school meals will increase by 7p per meal, less than half the rate of inflation
The chief executive of Future Academies is leaving to run the White Horse Federation, it has been announced. Paul Smith is an ex-regional schools commissioner
The government's food strategy has been labelled 'disappointing' after most schools recommendations including free school meals extension were stripped away