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Schools Week
4 days ago
❌ Labour’s off-rolling crackdown could finally 'shed light on a practice that is currently invisible' but must be supported by councils and trusts to work, experts have said
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/off-rolling-curbs-welcomed-but-warnings-over-gaps-in-data/
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Off-rolling curbs welcomed, but warnings over ‘gaps in data’
Ministers plan to tighten up scrutiny of pupil moves - and to interrogate leaders suspected of off-rolling
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/off-rolling-curbs-welcomed-but-warnings-over-gaps-in-data/
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Schools Week
4 days ago
💸 Academy bosses are urging ministers to give them 'clarity' over whether recently dumped trust growth funds will come back from the dead
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/clarity-sought-as-trust-growth-funding-absent-from-white-paper/
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Trust growth funding ‘notably absent’ from white paper
Ministers want all schools in trusts, but cut funding for expanding trusts last year
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/clarity-sought-as-trust-growth-funding-absent-from-white-paper/
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Schools Week
8 days ago
‼️ A crackdown on off-rolling pupils, a call for standalone schools to join or form MATs and changes to the admissions code are among major plans unveiled in today's schools white paper
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-white-paper-the-key-schools-policies/
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Schools white paper: The key schools and academies policies
Fair banding transparency, a crackdown on off-rolling and calls for all schools to be in trusts
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-white-paper-the-key-schools-policies/
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Schools Week
14 days ago
💸 An academy trust loaded with a £9 million deficit has been ordered to slash costs, as it banks on government bailouts to keep it afloat
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/job-cuts-loom-at-trust-with-9m-deficit/
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Job cuts loom at trust with £9m deficit
Ministers tighten oversight of chain amid concerns over 'weak financial position' and 'continued' breaches
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/job-cuts-loom-at-trust-with-9m-deficit/
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Schools Week
21 days ago
📝 One of England's biggest academy trusts fell foul of a 'historic fraud' over a number of years Read more 🔽
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Star fell victim to ‘historic fraud’ over several years
MAT with 36 schools says 'all reasonable steps taken' following 'significant financial irregularity'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/star-academy-trust-fell-victim-to-historic-fraud-over-several-years/
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Schools Week
22 days ago
📝 Bosses of under-performing schools given targeted support through the government’s RISE improvement scheme have felt 'on trial' and ignored during the first few months of the programme
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Heads 'on trial': 8 findings from first RISE evaluation
Report concludes the initial rollout of Labour's school improvement scheme has been a 'success'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/heads-on-trial-8-findings-from-first-rise-evaluation/
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Exclusive: One of England’s first PFI schools struck a secret deal for taxpayers to cover a £1m 'bullet payment' to break free of its contract Analysis also suggests PFI owners of English schools could have made as much as £85.7m in profits in one year
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Secret £1m bailout as PFI windfalls and school woes grow
Deal to cover £1m 'bullet payment' revealed as figures suggest PFI firms could have made £86m in one year
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/secret-1m-bailout-as-pfi-windfalls-and-school-woes-grow/
22 days ago
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Schools Week
25 days ago
The prominent boss of a troubled academy trust saddled with a multi-million-pound deficit has resigned following a leave of absence
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CEO of trust with £8.4m deficit resigns
Richard Gill leaves his role at the head of the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ceo-of-arthur-terry-trust-with-8-4m-deficit-resigns-after-leave-of-absence/
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Schools Week
28 days ago
💸 Almost £440,000 was spent supporting a merger that created one of England’s biggest MATs
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Coast and Vale paid Delta £440k ahead of merger
The sum was handed over for 'extensive work' before trusts joined forces to create 63-school trust
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/coast-and-vale-paid-delta-440k-ahead-of-merger/
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Schools Week
29 days ago
📊 Changes rolled out across 32 local authorities as part of a Tory-era SEND pilot have cut exclusions and kept more children in mainstream education, a report has found
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Piloted in-school SEND support 'cut exclusions' - report
Standardised EHCPs also welcomed by parents and councils, researchers find
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/piloted-in-school-send-support-cut-exclusions-report/
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Schools Week
29 days ago
📝 An under-pressure academy trust broke rules over a £15,000 payment to a former school leader
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Trust failed to clear payment to outgoing ‘senior executive’
MAT also did not conduct internal audit as reserves tumbled due to 'rising costs', accounts show
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/struggling-trust-failed-to-clear-payment-to-outgoing-senior-executive/
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❗️Exclusive: More than a thousand schools with poor outcomes slipped through the net of the government’s RISE low-attainment crackdown, exposing a 'significant gap' in its latest bid to boost results
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‘Schoolboy error’ as smaller schools escape RISE crackdown
The DfE has not contacted some primaries potentially needing support because data goes unpublished
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schoolboy-error-sees-smaller-schools-escape-rise-low-attainment-crackdown/
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Schools Week
about 1 month ago
💸 Exclusive: England’s best-paid academy boss has been given another pay rise, taking his salary to at least £530,000
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Best-paid academy boss earns £530k after £15k pay rise
Harris Federation CEO Sir Dan Moynihan received £15k wage hike last year, accounts show
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/best-paid-academy-boss-earns-530k-after-15k-pay-rise/
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Schools Week
about 1 month ago
Exclusive: Ministers urged to recognise role played by governors as 'core component' of accountability framework for schools It comes as a study found schools with effective boards were better prepared for Ofsted visits and 'more likely to sustain improvement'
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Schools with good governance 'better prepared for Ofsted'
Those with effective boards 'more likely to sustain improvement beyond the inspection cycle', report finds
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-with-good-governance-better-prepared-for-ofsted/
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Schools Week
about 1 month ago
Investigation: Dozens of academy trusts have bolstered their reserves by up to 900 per cent, as leaders tighten their belts ahead of the coming financial storm
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Trusts’ finances improve, but leaders brace for rainy days
Some chains boost reserves by up to 900%, but others remain in deficit as leaders warn of tough times ahead
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/trusts-finances-improve-but-leaders-brace-for-more-rainy-days/
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Schools Week
about 1 month ago
Two trust bosses have teamed up to develop their own artificial intelligence (AI) platform to solve the 'challenge of data fragmentation' in schools
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New AI platform aims to make sense of ‘myriad of data’
Open Education AI seeks to help schools bring together data from multiple apps and tools
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/new-ai-platform-aims-to-make-sense-of-myriad-of-data/
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Schools Week
about 1 month ago
📉 Exclusive: Classrooms in schools rocked by falling rolls could be used by the NHS as 'community health hubs', the boss of the Department for Education’s property arm has said
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Community health hubs could use empty classrooms
LocatED chief 'seriously worried' falling rolls could undo the work of the free schools programme
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/community-health-hubs-could-use-empty-classrooms/
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Schools Week
about 1 month ago
🏫 When Dr Jenny Blunden took charge at her Cornish trust, its three schools were 'broken' But in a fight against low aspirations, the CEO has added successful schools and continues to battle for them as budgets remain squeezed Read our profile of her here 🔽
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Dr Jenny Blunden, CEO, Truro and Penwith Academy Trust
Fighting low aspirations for children in Cornwall
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dr-jenny-blunden-ceo-truro-and-penwith-academy-trust/
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Exclusive: A 'turnaround' trust once criticised for controversial behaviour policies has revealed plans to boost its academies’ 'emotional intelligence'
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Suspensions fall as trust embraces ‘emotional intelligence’
Influential turnaround MAT criticised for high suspensions bidding to cut exclusions and 'keep kids in school'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/suspensions-tumble-as-trust-embraces-emotional-intelligence/
about 2 months ago
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Schools Week
about 2 months ago
📝 Exclusive: A government consultation on the broadening of its RISE school improvement teams’ remit has been delayed into this term
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RISE consultation pushed back to this term
Government to begin 'informal engagement' over schools with low attainment
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-consultation-pushed-back-to-this-term/
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Schools Week
about 2 months ago
🔢 Exclusive: The government wants school management information systems (MIS) providers to help it 'harness the potential' of the real-time data they collect to inform policy decisions
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DfE wants to scrape real-time MIS data from schools
Department calls for tech companies to take part in trials to feed it data to inform policy
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-wants-to-scrape-real-time-mis-data-from-schools/
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Schools Week
about 2 months ago
England’s biggest exam board has scrubbed the names of two photographers from one of its GCSE assessments over concerns their websites contain images that 'may not be appropriate' for students
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Artists removed from GCSE assessment over website images
AQA deletes photographers' names from exam after images 'not appropriate for learners' found on their websites
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/photographers-removed-from-gcse-assessment-over-website-images/
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Schools Week
about 2 months ago
🔢 Exclusive: Ministers are set to publish data on the effectiveness of new RISE school improvement teams in the spring – but they won’t out individual advisers for poor performance
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Impact of RISE teams to be published this year
But government will publish individual adviser objectives amid data protection concerns
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/impact-of-rise-teams-to-be-published-this-year/
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Schools Week
about 2 months ago
❌ A trouble-hit academy trust has admitted it did not conduct internal financial checks as its deficit swelled to more than £8 million and it received another government loan to keep it afloat
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Arthur Terry academy trust did no internal audit
The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership did not conduct an internal audit last year despite deficits swelling to more than £8 million
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/no-internal-audit-for-arthur-terry-trust-with-8-4m-deficit/
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Schools Week
about 2 months ago
Exclusive: One of England’s biggest academy trusts is set to give up two special schools after deciding they would be better off in a specialist chain
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Lift set to hand over two special schools
The 58-school MAT believes both academies will be 'best supported within a specialist trust'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/lift-academy-trust-set-to-hand-over-two-special-schools/
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Schools Week
3 months ago
👨🏫 When Andrew Truby took leadership of a Catholic trust, he was on his own and had no schools He reveals how he built the 'home for orphans’ and secured its future, during a career that has been characterised by seizing opportunities... 🔽
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Putting out the welcome MAT
Catholic academy trust CEO Andrew Truby reveals how he built the 'home for orphan schools’
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/andrew-truby-ceo-st-joseph-catholic-multi-academy-trust/
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Schools Week
3 months ago
Exclusive: School governing boards are urging Ofsted to ensure cash-strapped leaders are using SEND funding for children and not to fill other budgetary holes
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Ofsted should check SEND funding not plugging budget holes
SEND system on a 'trajectory toward complete breakdown' and 'incremental change will not suffice', warns NGA
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-should-check-send-funding-not-plugging-budget-holes/
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Schools Week
3 months ago
❗The success of one of the highest-performing schools in the country has been 'achieved at too high a cost for some pupils', a safeguarding investigation has found
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Top academy's success 'at too high a cost' to some pupils
Review details 'isolating, shaming' practices at Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/mossbourne-success-of-high-performing-school-achieved-at-too-high-a-cost-for-some-pupils/
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Freddie Whittaker
3 months ago
Presenting edition 413 of Schools Week 💷 Investigation: The council schools with million-pound deficits 🏫 School spotlight: Internal AP 👂 Fears over last-minute SEND listening exercise Plus teacher recruitment, free school meals, falling rolls and more Subscribe:
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Some worrying findings here: 📈 71% rise in council-run schools in deficit in three years ❗️48 schools over £1m in the red 📝Deficit schools charged up to £340k in 'interest'
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Amid the success, there are rumblings of discontent over admissions and inclusion on the Isle of Sheppey following one of England's biggest school restructures We look in depth at all that's happened… 👇
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3 months ago
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Schools Week
3 months ago
Exclusive: A pioneering three-school trust in London plans to join one of England’s biggest MATs in the latest high-profile academy merger
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Big Education trust consults on merging with Oasis
Pioneering London trust plans merger with one of country's biggest MATs. Their leaders explain more ...
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/big-education-trust-consults-on-merging-with-oasis/
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Schools Week
4 months ago
💸 A school has been refused permission to cut its intake by a quarter despite estimates of a 'catastrophic' £2 million deficit after the local authority opposed the plans
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School’s intake cut blocked despite £2m deficit fear
Watchdog rejects plan despite admitting the change could help the academy 'attract more students'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-intake-cut-blocked-despite-2m-deficit-fear/
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Just days after government's big announcement of their launch, new AI-generated attendance reports have been suspended... 😬
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4 months ago
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👀 Officials want to reduce the 'legal risks' schools face when buying MIS This follows a string of costly court fights, involving local authorities and some of England's biggest MATs...
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4 months ago
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We revealed last year how almost £200m had been handed to trusts through this secret fund There was no published guidance explaining what it was or who could access the money But now DfE seems to have finally responded to calls for greater transparency...
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Schools Week
4 months ago
👔 Schools must 'confirm as soon as possible' and consider legal advice on any uniform changes needed for a new cap on branded items, with parents able to escalate any disputes to government
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School uniform: New rules to meet Labour's cap revealed
Guidance tells schools to confirm changes ASAP, consider legal advice and lets parents complain to government
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/school-uniform-new-rules-to-meet-labours-cap-revealed/
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Schools Week
4 months ago
💸 One in five council-run primaries could be plunged into deficit as the falling rolls crisis deepens, with 20 per cent of teachers already laid off in the worst-hit areas
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1 in 5 teachers laid off in worst-hit falling roll areas
A fifth of maintained primaries could also fall into deficit, new research reveals
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/one-in-five-teachers-laid-off-in-worst-hit-falling-roll-areas/
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❗️Seventy-five trusts – one with a deficit of almost £6 million – raised concerns about their ability to continue operating in 2023-24, more than double the year before Our investigation ⬇️
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More standalone schools on the brink as deficits grow
Seventy-five trusts raised concerns about their ability to continue operating in 2023-24
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-schools-in-groups-plan-explored-as-sats-deficits-mount/
4 months ago
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Schools Week
5 months ago
Exclusive: Reform UK-run Kent council plans to raid £2 million from schools’ already-squeezed budgets to pay for vital services it can no longer afford, sparking fears of more classroom cuts
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Reform-run Kent council plans £2m school budget raid
Leaders say proposals fly in face of pre-election pledges to identify efficiencies from 'DOGE' unit
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-run-kent-council-plans-2m-school-budget-raid/
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This year, SATs moderators will be tested on questions written by AI, rather than actual children’s work The pilot has been launched amid a government push to ‘harness the power of AI technology across the sector’ Our exclusive👇
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Schools Week
5 months ago
💸 An academy trust broke rules after paying nearly £5,000 in 'consultancy services' to the mother of its CEO, a government investigation has found
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Trust broke rules over payments to CEO's mum
Government probe finds trust breached rules over consultancy payments and £24k on training courses
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-trust-broke-rules-over-payments-to-ceos-mum/
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Schools Week
5 months ago
❌ Exclusive: A controversial decision allowing a school to introduce fair banding has been withdrawn by the admissions watchdog over allegations important evidence was ignored
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Admissions watchdog rescinds fair banding approval
The controversial decision had allowed a school to introduce the practice
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/admissions-watchdog-rescinds-fair-banding-approval/
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Our investigation found: 👤In a fifth of RISE schools, advisers brokered in support from organisations employing fellow advisers 🔁 Organisations providing RISE support have their own 'stuck' schools 👥️ MATs with more than one RISE school receiving support from different bodies
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5 months ago
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❗️This has reignited concerns over fair banding, with one head arguing it 'systematically discriminates against certain groups' Full story ⬇️
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5 months ago
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LAs have reported what they suggest are tactics by schools to skew cohorts One council even accused secondaries of practices that 'amount to selection' Our investigation into the issues hampering in-year pupil transfers ⬇️
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6 months ago
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Schools Week
6 months ago
Exclusive: A council has raised 'serious concerns' over Catholic schools lowering the importance of looked-after children in admissions after a youngster in care was refused a place at the school deemed 'most appropriate' by their social worker
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Concern as children in care denied Catholic school places
Analysis suggests schools give priority to children of their faith before non-religious pupils in care
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/serious-concerns-as-children-in-care-refused-places-at-catholic-schools/
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John Dickens
6 months ago
Edition 404 done and dusted Special school admissions investigation The sector grades Ofsted Our first Boardroom Leader Northern Star Academies Trust takes the School Spotlight
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CEO talks defining high stakes
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Here, we take a closer look at the RISE expansion, as analysis suggests hundreds of schools could fall within scope of the teams' new powers... ⬇️
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6 months ago
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Schools Week
6 months ago
🖥️ Exclusive: A management information system (MIS) outage at a major supplier has left schools unable to pay suppliers, run after-school clubs and respond to safeguarding concerns
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MIS outage leaves schools in the lurch
Major supplier apologises as schools unable to pay suppliers and respond to safeguarding concerns
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/mis-outage-leaves-schools-in-the-lurch/
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