Ofsted has dealt “openly and transparently” with feedback on its planned reforms, its chief inspector has claimed, after the ...

ASCL won't go ahead with plan to ask leaders to step down as Ofsted inspectors - but says it has 'resolved to explore legal ...

The plans would simplify the process to transfer staff to the same fund, rather than having them spread out across different ...

Hood’s husband, Josh MacAlister, was appointed children’s minister in September. Since leaving Oak and prior to his new job, ...

Not quite halfway through the first term, schools’ work on transition is already morphing into phase two: preventing ‘the ...

Teaching is a rewarding profession in so many ways – it is also however extremely demanding with an often-relentless workload and seemingly endless responsibilities. For these very reasons, retiring ...

Around 15 local authorities have adopted the “locality cluster” model of SEND funding, experts estimate. Other names for it ...

Alternative Provision (AP) exists for young people who, for a multitude of reasons, cannot thrive in mainstream settings. In ...

And “unless there are exceptional evidence-based reasons, looked-after children should never be placed in a school judged by Ofsted to be ‘inadequate’”. However, headline Ofsted grades were scrapped ...

But the momentum hasn’t lasted. Funding priorities have shifted and cohort numbers have fallen from two annually to just one ...

An academy trust is to launch a “one of its kind” higher education institute for non-graduates working with children to train as teachers, social workers, counsellors and SEND specialists.

A probe into the academy trust that paid nearly £5,000 in “consultancy services” to its CEO’s mum was kept under wraps while ...