Students develop essential skills throughout, including creativity, analytical and critical thinking, ethical awareness and ...

According to the DfE, “inclusion bases” could be “additional spaces within the school building or refurbishment or ...

Suspensions are rising. More pupils are out of school. The SEND system is in crisis. And everyone is rightly calling for ...

There is clearly a gulf between the ambition of the curriculum review committee led by Professor Becky Francis, and the ...

Bringing back ideas on areas including curriculum sequencing and literacy routines strengthens practice in the home school.

Screens incrementally take up more of children’s time than they did a couple of decades ago, when they barely existed. One in ...

The government has pledged write off 90 per cent of councils’ historic SEND deficits – estimated to be worth £5 billion. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said the deficits on ...

Stephen Kingdom, the DfE’s deputy director of SEND in 2014, said the last reforms mainly reflected problems with the “school ...

One of England’s first private finance initiative (PFI) schools struck a secret deal for taxpayers to cover a £1 million ...

The DfE stressed it is “has learned a lot” from the first phase of the programme and is in a “much better place now in terms of [finding] matching organisations”. Advisers are also “more confident ...

One of the biggest academy trusts fell foul of a “historic fraud” over a number of years. Star Academies, which runs 36 schools, uncovered the “significant financial irregularity” last year.

While suspensions have increased by a fifth in recent years, just one per cent of 5,020 teachers polled recently by Teacher ...