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The Conservative Party pledges to make guidance on banning mobile phones statutory and to protect ‘day-to-day’ per pupil spending on schools

Education bodies and unions collectively call for all political parties to commit to a plan to invest the funding needed to eradicate all school cuts

Lib Dems pledge to make teacher pay fully funded and independent, and to cut the amount schools pay towards education, health and care plans

Spending money on managing SEND deficits rather than meeting children’s needs is a situation ‘close to madness’, says the union

Analysis suggests school-based counselling would provide an eight-fold financial benefit to the government

Special schools have suffered a £419 million real-terms cut in spending power over 14 years, unions warn

Using class-contact reduction for ‘collegiate time’ is another ‘absolute red line’, says union chief Andrea Bradley, who also calls on Scottish government to ‘come clean’ on teacher numbers

This week’s essential education news includes a ÌÇÐÄVlog investigation into the number of academies paying teachers above the national rate and a warning about schools facing rising complaints

Does your school pay teachers more than the nationally set scale? Check our interactive map to find out

Inspectors are feeling ‘pressured’ by Ofsted’s target to inspect all schools by next summer, says union

Which academies deviate from the national teacher pay scale, and is this affecting other schools’ ability to recruit?

Glasgow teachers are warning that if job cuts go ahead in the city other councils will follow suit