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An attempt to reduce teacher workload with a revamped and reduced list of tasks has been described by small schools as 'unrealistic' without 'extra funding'
DfE has vowed to publish its roadmap for making the education estate net-zero, after admitting its rebuilding programme alone won’t be enough to hit targets
In total, 22.3 per cent of pupils missed more than one in 10 sessions in the last academic year, roughly double the proportion in 2018-19. Of disadvantaged pupils, nearly two in five are now classed as “persistently absent”. A Centre for Social Justice report this week concluded that Covid has well and truly shattered the online schools
Academy trusts are drawing-up plans to open their own private special schools to solve the SEND places crisis, including tapping-up wealthy donors to foot costs
Schools would be left in a 'perilous and untenable' position if council plans to raid 11% of their budgets to fill a £28.9m high needs funding gap go ahead
The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has extended funding for universal primary free school meals into 2024-25, and raised the amount schools receive per meal to £3
A Labour government will use artificial intelligence to spot trends in pupil attendance and ask Ofsted to review absence as part of annual safeguarding checks