The DfE's school condition improvement fund will be replaced with a new programme that will not require full bids and a new framework will govern the use of surplus school land amid falling rolls https://schoolsweek.co.uk/education-estates-strategy-to-replace-cif-and-create-surplus-land-framework/

All secondary schools will be expected to have 'inclusion bases' where 'pupils can access targeted support that bridges the gap between mainstream and specialist provision', the government has said https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-expects-all-secondary-schools-to-have-inclusion-bases/

'Our message to school leaders considering the postgraduate teaching apprenticeship is simple. When training is rooted in continuity and backed by great mentoring, pupils feel it – and outcomes follow' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/teaching-apprenticeships-offer-the-continuity-children-crave/

'We need a national expectation that compels partnership, aligns accountability and reconnects the fragments of our system for the children who need us most' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/siloed-trusts-are-the-elephant-in-the-room-on-inclusion/

📝 One of England's biggest academy trusts fell foul of a 'historic fraud' over a number of years Read more 🔽

📝 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 Read more 🔽

The government has pledged write off 90 per cent of councils’ historic SEND deficits – estimated to be worth £5 billion https://schoolsweek.co.uk/government-to-write-off-90-of-councils-send-deficits/

Breaking: The government has pledged write off 90 per cent of councils’ historic SEND deficits – estimated to be worth £5 billion https://schoolsweek.co.uk/government-to-write-off-90-of-councils-send-deficits/

💸 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

📝 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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'Inspections must be more honest, humane, accurate and considerate. A consistently high conduct of inspections is non-negotiable' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/first-report-cards-show-ofsted-still-requires-improvement/

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 schoolsweek.co.uk/secret-1m-ba...

Exclusive: Fewer than one in 30 teachers and leaders say their school uses suspensions excessively, despite fresh government pressure on leaders to keep more pupils in school https://schoolsweek.co.uk/we-dont-use-suspensions-too-much-say-most-school-staff/

The prominent boss of a troubled academy trust saddled with a multi-million-pound deficit has resigned following a leave of absence

ICYMI: Ofsted has agreed to gather more feedback from school leaders on inspections’ impact on their wellbeing, as part of a deal with heads that will see a new 'independent advisory group' launched

A new 'independent advisory group' set up by union NAHT is to scrutinise the effect new Ofsted inspections have on school leader wellbeing. Feedback will be collected from a range of leaders post-inspection, and reviewed by the panel

School nurseries lack the staff, space or demand to offer more wraparound, holiday or pre-school childcare, particularly in poorer areas, research shows https://schoolsweek.co.uk/school-nurseries-lack-staff-and-space-for-extra-care-report-finds/

👤 A 43-school academy trust has named a Department for Education director and former ESFA boss as its new CEO Read more 🔽

Exclusive: Fewer than one in 30 teachers and leaders say their school uses suspensions excessively, despite fresh government pressure on leaders to keep more pupils in school https://schoolsweek.co.uk/we-dont-use-suspensions-too-much-say-most-school-staff/

The prominent boss of a troubled academy trust saddled with a multi-million-pound deficit has resigned following a leave of absence schoolsweek.co.uk/ceo-of-arthu...

Exclusive: Fewer than one in 30 teachers and leaders say their school uses suspensions excessively, despite fresh government pressure on leaders to keep more pupils in school schoolsweek.co.uk/we-dont-use-...

A new 'independent advisory group' set up by the NAHT is to scrutinise the effect new Ofsted inspections have on school leader wellbeing. Ofsted has agreed to sit on the panel, which is being launched amid concerns new inspections place extra pressure on leaders

👤 A 43-school academy trust has named a Department for Education director and former ESFA boss as its new CEO schoolsweek.co.uk/glf-names-ne...

With a white paper expected within weeks, leaks to national newspapers offer only a piecemeal glimpse at what might happen with SEND reform. But in the background, local officials have been quietly instructed to start the wheels in motion now for a reformed system… schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-dfe...

Ofsted has agreed to gather more feedback from school leaders on inspections’ impact on their wellbeing, as part of a deal with heads that will see a new 'independent advisory group' launched schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-plans...

💸 A two-year run of cash-strapped academy trusts eating into their reserves has come to an end, with the largest MATs recording gains of over £1 million But accountants have warned leaders not to 'pop the champagne', amid bleak financial forecasts...

'AP is not a footnote in the system. For the young people who need it, it is the system. That demands governing boards who understand risk, resist false comparison and never lose sight of the outcome that matters most' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/governance-in-ap-demands-a-non-mainstream-approach/

💸 A two-year run of cash-strapped academy trusts eating into their reserves has come to an end, with the largest MATs recording gains of over £1 million But accountants have warned leaders not to 'pop the champagne', amid bleak financial forecasts... schoolsweek.co.uk/dont-pop-cha...

ICYMI: The government plans to 'update' its guidance on mandatory collective worship in England’s schools after the Supreme Court ruled the delivery of the practice in Northern Ireland was unlawful

Government is planning to update its guidance on mandatory collective worship in England’s schools, after a landmark Supreme Court ruling relating to how the practice is delivered in Northern Ireland

The government is planning to 'update' its guidance on mandatory collective worship in England’s schools after the Supreme Court ruled delivery of the practice in Northern Ireland was unlawful

'Schools now have the impetus to make oracy the golden thread weaving through their plans, policies and curriculums. For schools serving deprived communities, this is the moment to place oracy at the heart of their mission' schoolsweek.co.uk/talk-isnt-ch...

The government is planning to 'update' its guidance on collective worship in England’s schools after the Supreme Court ruled the delivery of the practice in Northern Ireland was unlawful schoolsweek.co.uk/government-t...

💸 Almost £440,000 was spent supporting a merger that created one of England’s biggest MATs

'When you can’t hide behind averages, you learn to genuinely know every child. When every result matters, you develop interventions that work. These aren’t weaknesses. They’re precisely the practices our education system claims to value' schoolsweek.co.uk/small-school...

'Through reflecting on the subtle interventions they enact daily and their approaches to problem-solving, support staff can make their skills visible and articulate the real impact they have on pupils’ learning' schoolsweek.co.uk/support-staf...

'Ordinary shouldn’t be extraordinary for any child in any classroom, in any constituency, and not in a country that claims to believe in opportunity for all' schoolsweek.co.uk/spending-on-...

Exclusive: Schools could be required to record internal exclusions under new guidance that will encourage headteachers to only send pupils home for the most serious cases of poor behaviour and violence schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-coul...

💸 Almost £440,000 was spent supporting a merger that created one of England’s biggest MATs schoolsweek.co.uk/coast-and-va...

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 Full story 🔽

ICYMI: More research is needed into the impact of AI tutoring for pupils, experts say after the government announced plans to trial it in England’s schools

More research is needed on the impact of AI tutoring for pupils, experts say after the government announced plans to trial it in England’s schools before rolling it out to hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged pupils

📊 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

More research is needed into the impact of AI tutoring for pupils, experts have warned after the government announced plans to trial it in England’s schools schoolsweek.co.uk/dfes-ai-tuto...

📝 An under-pressure academy trust broke rules over a £15,000 payment to a former school leader

Exclusive: Schools could be required to record internal exclusions under new guidance that will encourage headteachers to only send pupils home for the most serious cases of poor behaviour and violence schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-coul...

📊 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 schoolsweek.co.uk/piloted-in-s...

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'As the language-teaching community debates the new KS2 core content, let’s go beyond a word list. Let’s ensure culture and contact are at the centre – so students experience the benefits of language learning from their very first lesson' schoolsweek.co.uk/a-ni-hao-fro...