'Educational psychologists are already stretched thin, unevenly distributed and partly invisible to the department now trying to expand their numbers' schoolsweek.co.uk/the-white-pa...

The teacher labour market has 'contracted', with the number of secondary school job adverts down by around a third compared to last year, a new report suggests https://schoolsweek.co.uk/secondary-teacher-job-adverts-hit-a-historic-low-as-market-contracts/

Delivery of the government’s new 'experts at hand' SEND support service is 'at risk' because of a chronic shortage of educational psychologists, an influential think tank has warned https://schoolsweek.co.uk/educational-psychologist-shortage-puts-send-reforms-at-risk/

Funding for a new scheme aimed at bolstering external support for pupils with SEND must not be used to 'fill existing gaps or replace current provision', councils have been warned https://schoolsweek.co.uk/send-experts-at-hand-cash-must-not-plug-existing-gaps-councils-told/

ICYMI: From cutting cake, chips and cheese to increasing fibre and fruit, here are the key changes government is planning to make in its 'ambitious' overhaul of school food standards... https://schoolsweek.co.uk/cake-out-lentils-in-what-schools-need-to-know-about-food-standards-overhaul/

Government is planning the most 'ambitious' overhaul of food standards in a generation. From cutting cake and cheese to increasing fibre and fruit, here are the key changes schools need to know... https://schoolsweek.co.uk/cake-out-lentils-in-what-schools-need-to-know-about-food-standards-overhaul/

Ministers are planning the most 'ambitious' overhaul of food standards in a generation. From cutting cake and cheese to increasing fibre and fruit, here are the key changes schools need to know... https://schoolsweek.co.uk/cake-out-lentils-in-what-schools-need-to-know-about-food-standards-overhaul/

The government is planning the most 'ambitious' overhaul of food standards in a generation. From cutting cake, cheese and chips to increasing fibre and fruit, here are all the key changes... https://schoolsweek.co.uk/cake-out-lentils-in-what-schools-need-to-know-about-food-standards-overhaul/

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Deep-fried and high-sugar items like ice cream are to be removed from school menus under long-awaited new food standards, ministers have announced https://schoolsweek.co.uk/school-food-standards-update-ice-cream-deep-fried/

Leaders are calling on councils to keep working closely with schools to provide new nurseries, after it was announced that they would take the reins of the government’s scheme. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/councils-take-the-lead-on-school-based-nurseries/

Teacher workload, staffing shortages and competing priorities are stretching schools’ capacity to provide mentors for trainee teachers, a survey has found https://schoolsweek.co.uk/stretched-teacher-training-roviders-struggle-to-mentors-trainees/

Teacher workload, staffing shortages and competing priorities are stretching schools’ capacity to provide mentors for trainee teachers, a survey has found https://schoolsweek.co.uk/stretched-teacher-training-roviders-struggle-to-mentors-trainees/

The number of exam grades that were challenged at appeal has dropped by more than 18 per cent in a year, despite the number of appeals going up. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/number-of-exam-grades-challenged-declines-by-18-per-cent/

❗More schools face axing staff or closure amid falling rolls, ministers have been warned, after a nationwide trust announced that redundancies are on the way across many of its academies https://schoolsweek.co.uk/more-difficult-decisions-ahead-due-to-falling-rolls/

📝 An academy trust broke rules after using a confidentiality clause while cutting ties with an employee 🔢 This is the first known case of a trust falling foul of the new rules https://schoolsweek.co.uk/first-academy-trust-rapped-for-confidentiality-clause/

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❗More schools face axing staff or closure amid falling rolls, ministers have been warned, after a nationwide trust announced that redundancies are on the way across many of its academies https://schoolsweek.co.uk/more-difficult-decisions-ahead-due-to-falling-rolls/

📝 An academy trust broke rules after using a confidentiality clause while cutting ties with an employee 🔢 This is the first known case of a trust falling foul of the new rules https://schoolsweek.co.uk/first-academy-trust-rapped-for-confidentiality-clause/

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NASUWT debates emergency motion that could pave way for strikes schoolsweek.co.uk/live-blog-fr...

Live blog: Matt Wrack addresses NASUWT conference schoolsweek.co.uk/live-blog-fr...

Special school Ofsted inspection report cards will no longer compare their cohorts to national mainstream averages after complaints from heads https://schoolsweek.co.uk/special-school-ofsted-report-cards-drop-mainstream-comparisons/

Our live blogging continues as teachers gather in Birmingham for the NASUWT annual conference... https://schoolsweek.co.uk/live-blog-from-the-neu-and-nasuwt-conferences/

Only 40 per cent of disadvantaged pupils identified as high-achieving at the start of secondary school go on to achieve top GCSE grades, new research has found https://schoolsweek.co.uk/high-achieving-disadvantaged-pupils-less-likely-to-get-top-gcse-grades/

'Community-centred trusts can ensure, at least, a partial return to meaningful local accountability through visible and accessible governance and community participation in informing direction' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/were-yet-to-see-what-this-white-paper-really-means-for-academy-trusts/

Fears around unfunded pay rises, violence against teachers and the effects of planned SEND reforms will be key discussion points at this weekend’s NASUWT conference https://schoolsweek.co.uk/nasuwt-pay-and-pupil-violence-on-agenda-as-teachers-gather-in-birmingham/

Only 40 per cent of disadvantaged pupils identified as high-achieving at the start of secondary school go on to achieve top GCSE grades, new research has found https://schoolsweek.co.uk/high-achieving-disadvantaged-pupils-less-likely-to-get-top-gcse-grades/

❗Schools and trusts have been urged to ignore 'fraudulent' letters with 'a ministerial signature' purporting to be about a data breach https://schoolsweek.co.uk/leaders-urged-to-ignore-fake-dfe-letter-about-data-breach/

Follow live as NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede addresses the union's annual conference in Brighton schoolsweek.co.uk/live-blog-fr...

Only 40 per cent of disadvantaged pupils identified as high-achieving at the start of secondary school go on to achieve top GCSE grades, new research has found https://schoolsweek.co.uk/high-achieving-disadvantaged-pupils-less-likely-to-get-top-gcse-grades/

NEU debates emergency motion on fighting censorship and defending librarians schoolsweek.co.uk/live-blog-fr...

A new careers advice service for schools and colleges will replace the functions of the Careers & Enterprise Company, government has confirmed, but the organisation plans to bid to run its successor https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ministers-plan-new-careers-service-but-current-provider-plans-to-bid/

'The tired debate between 'no excuses' and 'understanding disadvantage' was always a false divide. The teachers who transformed my life did both' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/no-excuses-doctrine-means-zero-insight-into-barriers-a-child-faces/

A government dataset matching parental income with children’s education records could prove the key to ministers’ plans to shake up how deprivation funding is allocated. The trouble is, it’s not ready yet, an expert working on the dataset has warned schoolsweek.co.uk/earning-the-...

'It’s easy to point the finger at the schools which take fewer free-school-meals children, and fewer children with SEND. But there’s a long list of complicating factors working against teachers and leaders' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/best-performing-schools-have-the-fewest-disadvantaged-pupils/

'If we truly want to secure the future of the profession, we must stop treating teacher recruitment as an annual marketing exercise and start viewing it as a long-term community investment' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/reaching-6500-new-teachers-will-require-a-broader-talent-pipeline/

'Last year saw a series of exceptional sporting achievements by British women. But, despite these inspirational performances, girls are still less likely to engage in sport than boys' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/we-listened-to-girls-pe-fears-to-score-goal-of-better-participation/

❌ Exclusive: More top-up teacher training programmes have been cut at short notice following a ministerial budget squeeze https://schoolsweek.co.uk/anger-as-another-teacher-training-top-up-course-axed/

❌ Exclusive: More top-up teacher training programmes have been cut at short notice following a ministerial budget squeeze https://schoolsweek.co.uk/anger-as-another-teacher-training-top-up-course-axed/

Breaking: The NEU is set to prepare for a formal ballot of teachers over school funding and/or pay, and a ballot of support staff on 'school funding, redundancies and job creep' after a vote by delegates at its conference https://schoolsweek.co.uk/live-blog-from-the-neu-and-nasuwt-conferences/

The government's white paper and proposed SEND reforms, the far right, and teacher workload are up for debate today at the NEU conference, where general secretary Daniel Kebede is also expected to speak. Follow along here... https://schoolsweek.co.uk/live-blog-from-the-neu-and-nasuwt-conferences/

Criticism of planned SEND reforms and concerns over the 'rise of the right' will be front and centre at the National Education Union’s annual conference, which began today https://schoolsweek.co.uk/send-and-the-far-right-on-the-neu-conference-agenda/

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Ministers are considering a shake-up of how they fund support for careers advice in schools and colleges, raising questions about the future of the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-considers-new-approach-to-careers-funding/

'If inflation rises, the pressure for a more generous pay settlement and more school funding grows. If the public finances tighten, the money to fund either becomes harder to find' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/war-on-iran-will-blast-a-hole-through-schools-budgets/

'We have the blueprint, we have the experience, and we have the hard-won resolve of those who have already led through the unimaginable. We are no longer afraid of the fog, we simply know how to turn on the lights' schoolsweek.co.uk/the-blueprin...

A scheme to make chess more accessible for disadvantaged groups will be launched in schools and colleges. But leaders fear the funding will fall short of what is needed https://schoolsweek.co.uk/900k-scheme-offers-equal-access-to-chess-in-schools/