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School leaders’ union warns members are reporting that DfE funding announced yesterday will not cover in full increases in national insurance contributions

The DfE makes admission on teacher pay funding as it announces more than £1 billion to cover schools’ increased national insurance contributions

The curriculum and assessment review’s interim report highlights concerns with KS2 writing assessment, the Spag test and ‘indefensible’ outcomes for some GCSE resit students

Measures are already in place to allow schools to ban phones, says education minister

It is ‘not possible to assess which schools are inclusive’ using official data, report warns

The education minister is ‘concerned’ by reports of poor behaviour in the classroom, he tells ÌÇÐÄVlog

The quality of support schools receive from local authorities is ‘variable’, say inspectors, although strengths include strategic leadership and collaboration between schools and councils

EPI research suggests that higher absence among disadvantaged 16-year-old students accounts for entire post-Covid increase in the gap

Curriculum and assessment review chair Professor Becky Francis tells ASCL conference that key stage and national assessments are ‘broadly working well’

Pepe Di’Iasio will use his speech at ASCL’s conference today to address the issue of pupil absence and criticise Ofsted’s proposals, calling for three inspection grades, not five

DfE’s inclusion group chair Tom Rees will lead programme calling for examples of schools running resource provision and SEN units, and using specialist learning assistants

Speaking at the ASCL conference, the education secretary set out the priorities for the RISE teams’ universal support offer