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This week’s essential education news and analysis round-up includes new guidance for teacher strikes, heads voting on industrial action and calls for the DfE to ditch its plan for a minimum length of the school week

Research reveals how the pandemic has ‘left many children at an increased risk of abuse’, charity boss warns

The long wait for education, health and care plan applications to be processed not only denies pupils with special educational needs the right support, it also puts massive strain on schools’ budgets, as this headteacher explains

Tackling pupil absence has been held up as a priority by successive education ministers, but what lies behind the problem? And do schools have the tools to fix it?

The Education Endowment Foundation is seeking a research team to evaluate the wider impacts of providing free school meals to primary pupils

Employers ‘cannot simply choose to ignore or underestimate the dangers of violent pupils’, says NASUWT general secretary

This week’s essential education news and analysis includes unions rejecting the latest pay offer, plans for summer strikes and a warning about school staff workloads

Just 8 per cent of teachers who responded to an NEU survey said they had sufficient access to Camhs support

NASUWT survey reveals just 3% of teachers say pupils with special educational needs or disabilities always receive the support to which they are entitled

Letter to go to schools today as review announced that will see Oak National Academy produce ‘high-quality, compliant resources’

Flagship government school mental health support teams face exodus of specialist workers who feel ‘in over their head’ amid lack of wider service gaps to support pupils

This week’s essential news and analysis features all the reaction to the new teacher pay offer, including plans for more strikes, heads’ warnings about funding the increase and a plea from the education secretary