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DfE sets out £800m SEND teacher development contracts

The government’s spending plans could include the creation of national SEND CPD programmes, with contracts expected to be awarded to providers next year

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Revealed: Which trusts received £16m of DfE support

DfE analysis of trust accounts also shows termination warning notices more than doubled in 2022-23

Ofsted inclusion plans lack focus on school admissions, MPs told

Leaders have to work 'against the tide' of the accountability system to promote a whole-school approach to inclusion, MPs also warned

Sir Hamid Patel appointed interim chair of Ofsted

The Star Academies chief will serve until the summer when a permanent appointment is expected to be made

The 28 signs of ‘school readiness’

Trusts and charities call on the government to support the new Starting Reception definition of school readiness

Worsening speech and language skills make teaching more difficult, study finds

Nearly half of primary teachers say more pupils are struggling to communicate at the expected level for their age

Teacher pension contributions to increase next month

The government has today laid a statutory instrument before Parliament that will make changes to contributions from 1 April

Gender gap in Year 9 maths at its widest

There is an 'urgent need' to find out why the gender gap in maths has re-emerged, says DfE report analysing findings from Timss international research

SQA investigates data breach after thousands of documents leaked online

SQA confirms 'unauthorised use of website-access credentials at a single SQA centre' but says this is 'not the result of a cyberattack'

Private school teachers taking second jobs to make ends meet

Poll by NEU teaching union also reveals that recruitment has been frozen as a result of VAT on independent school fees

Number of Scottish schools sharing a headteacher triples

Conservatives argue that in most cases shared headships are 'detrimental to schools and pupils'

Headteachers’ gender pay gap ‘has widened to a chasm’

On International Women’s Day, new data reveals that the gender pay gap for some school leaders is at its worst for 13 years

Foundation Apprenticeships offer ‘something for everyone’

More than £100 million funding to support Modern and Foundation Apprenticeships in 2025-26 has been confirmed by Scotland's education secretary

Government doing ‘too little, too slowly’ on mobile phones, MPs told

Ministers under fire over 'watered-down' second version of the Safer Phones Bill, which no longer includes consideration of a statutory mobile phone ban in schools

EIS launches book to help young new arrivals to Scotland

The teaching union's story book is aimed at supporting young children who are new to Scotland to settle in at school

Religious observance proposals ‘lack clarity’, say education directors

Proposed changes to the law would effectively entitle children to opt out of learning about religion – not just practising it, says ADES

Why SEMH support is schools’ biggest challenge

Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs have been found to fare the worst in terms of getting SEND support. Why is this, and what can schools do with constrained resources?

DfE has ‘limited’ knowledge of where £9.2bn pupil premium goes

MPs warn schools are using money aimed at supporting disadvantaged pupils to plug gaps elsewhere – but leaders say more funding is needed

Early years: Teachers to be trained to supervise toothbrushing

School leaders warn government not to expect them to 'fix all of society’s ills' following supervised toothbrushing announcement

DfE attendance tsar urges schools to focus on occasional absentees

Rob Tarn says schools struggling with attendance can make a difference with pupils who 'could come to school all the time'

Ofsted: Inspections could have shifted focus away from maths

Watchdog's evaluation of its Education Inspection Framework says it may have resulted in schools focusing too much on reading

Many pupils in poverty missing out on free school meals

With research revealing the gap between the number of children in poverty and those getting free school meals, the Education Policy Institute echoes calls for automatic enrolment

Behaviour overtakes workload as a top concern for primary teachers

Teachers in primary are also more worried about support for pupils' social, emotional and mental health needs, research shows

Former firefighters’ union boss in line for top NASUWT role

Matt Wrack would be the first general secretary in the union’s history not to have a teaching background

More than a thousand complaints made after Ofsted school visits

The number of complaints made to Ofsted following school inspections has increased by 60 per cent over the last three years