Weekly round-up: Ofsted chief probe and RSHE warning

Catch up on all your must-read Tes news and analysis here:

• Probe Spielman on home education concerns, judge tells Ofsted
  A judge has ruled that Ofsted must ask chief inspector Amanda Spielman for the evidence behind a series of concerns about home education that she raised with MPs.
• Wilshaw: Ofsted ‘not focusing enough on teaching quality’
  Former Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has told an MPs’ inquiry into the watchdog’s work that it is “ridiculous” that some schools with terrible outcomes can receive a “good” inspection grade.
• Schools face ‘huge extra workload’ from RSHE demand
  School leaders have raised concerns that the education secretary’s latest call for schools to publish relationships, sex and health education curriculum materials will create a “huge additional workload requirement”.
• £20 million hardship funding for high-deficit schools
  Half of an extra £40 million hardship fund announced as part of the teacher pay deal over the summer will go to 35 local authorities with maintained schools with the biggest deficits, the Department for Education has said.
• School leader burnout more than doubles
  The proportion of senior leadership team members experiencing consistent feelings of “burnout” has more than doubled over the past five years, research shows.
• ‘Existential threat’ to catch-up tutoring, warns DfE adviser
  Catch-up tutoring is facing an “existential threat” with the National Tutoring Programme set to end after this academic year, a DfE adviser has warned.
• ‘Vital’ behaviour hubs evaluation delayed
  Findings on whether a flagship government scheme to improve pupil behaviour is working have been delayed until 2024 - three years after the scheme was launched.
• How to manage change as a middle leader
  In part four of Tes’ Middle Leadership Essentials series, we look at how to manage change - whether it’s instigated by you or imposed from above.
• Mobile phones in school: why our rule is ‘meet, feet, eat’
  While some education settings might ban phones, this leader explains why his school has taken a different approach.
• What governors want from the next government
  The joint CEO of the National Governance Association explains what governors want any future government to tackle, from recruitment difficulties to the quality of school buildings.