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Former education recovery commissioner appointed as non-executive director at the Department for Education

Leora Cruddas, chief executive of the MAT sector body, says trusts should know their schools and heads, and not be reliant upon Ofsted to highlight problems

Former education secretary and schools minister appointed to the Conservatives’ opposition front bench

Schools should instead adopt a ‘collaborative approach’, providing support to families of pupils with poor attendance, study finds

MAT leaders have said that the SEND system needs ‘radical reform’ and should be fixed as a ‘priority’

Department for Education also says it will expand the national teacher recruitment campaign but has not set out any details

A former DfE adviser also tells the Festival of Education that the Labour government will have to ‘tackle a bunch of questions’ about the academy system despite its ‘agnostic’ stance on school structure

The National Governance Association said the DfE had found money for a governor recruitment drive before the election was called

The new education secretary has given her first speech in the role to the department she will now lead – read it here in full

This week’s ÌÇÐÄVlog round-up focuses on Labour’s plans for education, the challenges the new government must overcome and the reaction from the sector to a historic election victory

Former education secretaries and ministers voted out as Conservative Party suffer historic election defeat

ÌÇÐÄVlog takes a closer look at the gaps in the new Labour government’s manifesto pledges for schools