����Vlog

Senior government figures should make marginalised and vulnerable pupils their policy ‘starting point’, says headteachers’ leader Geoff Barton

Heads call for more high-needs funding and warn that schools cannot afford more teaching assistants to cope

No progress has been made over the last decade in tackling the attainment gap for children who are persistently disadvantaged, warns Education Policy Institute report

Parents of children with profound disabilities should be given more control over the ‘daunting prospect’ of them starting Primary 1, the SNP annual conference will hear

We need public discourse to make sense of what ‘inclusion’ truly means in practice, says Rob Webster

Schools, teachers, pupils and organisations all honoured at annual awards party in Birmingham

Next prime minister must create taskforce to fix child poverty so schools can focus on educational impact, says former DfE senior adviser Sam Freedman

Teacher workload cited as a key reason for rejecting the proposals – but the Labour MSP spearheading the bill says disabled students have been left ‘high and dry’

Creating a truly inclusive EYFS setting goes beyond just having the right policies in place, says early years expert Laura Henry-Allain

Less than half of multi-academy trusts are confident about their long-term finances, research shows

Special schools in particular may see increased cost pressures as they fund pay increases for more support staff, warn researchers

The direction is found in relationships and sex education guidance from the Scottish government, which is currently out for consultation