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Debates around SEND often focus on funding, staffing and access to provision – but what about the role schools can play in helping students understand what happens in specialist settings?

Exam board’s managing director, in an exclusive ÌÇÐÄVlog interview, says that despite a complaint being upheld by Ofqual and pressure from Tories, it cannot award marks for ‘incorrect answers’

DfE consulting on plans to give schools more upfront funding for SEND provision, but also raise the £6,000 per pupil threshold for applying for top-up cash

Patrick Wall will lead the Ark Schools multi-academy trust and Katie Oliver will be CEO of the organisation’s charitable arm

DfE announces delay to the sports partnership network that will replace the PE and sport premium, but says primary schools will receive more transitional funding

Creating a negotiating body for school support staff feels like a sensible step, but it could reduce the flexibility that has made trusts so successful, says CST deputy Steve Rollett

The commercial director at Thinking Schools Academy Trust explains how it has used KPIs to oversee the overseers – and the positive impact this has had

ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis reveals a big increase in Ofsted monitoring inspections, prompting warnings about school leaders’ wellbeing and inspector workload

Negotiations come amid growing industrial action by the teaching union, with school leaders telling ÌÇÐÄVlog that disputes have left them feeling ‘distressed’ and ‘exploited’

The NAHT has published medical support guidance to help school leaders identify unsafe practices and challenge unreasonable expectations

Legal experts challenge the DfE’s decision not to mandate social media checks when schools are recruiting staff, in its updated Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance

Schools in England had the highest daily absence rate so far during the 2025-26 academic year in June, when temperatures reached 37.7C