Compliance

Find the latest statutory guidance and understand how it affects your school, from updates to key DfE documents to brand-new legislation

Friday

31st Mar 2023

A 9-point plan for a better Ofsted
Anyone applying for the job of Ofsted chief inspector should consider making these changes to the school inspection system, argues Tom Campbell, CEO at E-ACT multi-academy trust
A nine-point plan for a better Ofsted

Tuesday

28th Mar 2023

Concern over inspections of special schools, MPs told
Special schools not always getting specialist Ofsted inspectors, cross-party Education Committee is told
Concern over Ofsted inspections of special schools, MPs told

Tuesday

21st Mar 2023

‘Rumbling crisis’ in behaviour management, says DfE tsar
Tom Bennett also says good work had been done in recent years and warned it has been historically ‘incredibly hard’ to know what behaviour is like in schools
Behaviour

Tuesday

14th Mar 2023

Gibb: Teaching about suicide could be ‘requirement’ in RSE
Government review of relationships and sex education and health education could include a specific requirement to teach about suicide prevention, schools minister suggests
Suicide help

Friday

10th Mar 2023

Why tackling attendance may be about to get much easier
School leaders and ministers have lamented the post-Covid drop in school attendance, but a tech solution may help schools reverse the trend, finds Dan Worth
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Monday

6th Mar 2023

Did we forget SEND in Slant?
There is a danger that the way some schools are implementing the Slant behaviour-for-learning approach is setting pupils with SEND up to fail, argues headteacher Clive Lawrence 
Did we forget SEND in SLANT?

Wednesday

1st Mar 2023

Secondary school admissions policies ‘reinforce inequality’
Research into admissions comes on the day that families find out if their child has been accepted into the secondary school of their choice

Tuesday

28th Feb 2023

How we can improve diversity on school governing boards
On National School Governors’ Awareness Day, the CEO of the charity Governors for Schools explains why increasing the diversity of school governors in terms of age, race and background is so important
What schools can do to improve governing board diversity

Monday

13th Feb 2023

Why schools must take the RAAC danger seriously
As the deadline for schools returning a DfE questionnaire on reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete approaches, the head of estates for a MAT explains that this is an issue schools must not overlook
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Monday

23rd Jan 2023

DfE persistent absence data delay ‘disappointing’, says ex-minister
Exclusive: Robin Walker, former DfE minister and chair of the Commons Education Select Committee, says work on persistent absence should be a ‘priority’ for the department
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Exclusive

Monday

16th Jan 2023

Strikes: Schools told to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to stay open
Schools should prioritise exam students, vulnerable children and pupils with key worker parents, Department for Education guidance states
Strikes: Schools told to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to stay open

Friday

6th Jan 2023

Fears for pupil safety as safeguarding referrals result in ‘no action’
Why do so many safeguarding referrals from schools end in ‘no further action’, and why is the system increasingly ‘fraught and difficult’? ÌÇÐÄVlog investigates
Fears for pupil safety as safeguarding referrals result in ‘no action’