Yesterday
Former NEU leader and ex-children’s commissioner made life peers
Mary Bousted and Anne Longfield become Labour peers, while free speech campaigner and free-school founder Toby Young is made a peer by the Conservatives
Starmer: SEND reform will be done ‘as urgently as possible’
Prime minister is warned that councils’ SEND spending deficits could result in ‘an avalanche’ of local authorities declaring effective bankruptcy
School’s legal challenge against double RI academy order
Primary school is taking legal advice in an attempt to stop the DfE pushing ahead with its forced academisation under a policy that the government is dropping in the new year
New inquiry will seek solutions to SEND crisis
MPs will look at inclusion in mainstream schools, funding and alternatives to the EHCP system ‘without reducing support’
Force parents to engage on behaviour, says report
Teachers are ‘powerless’ to tackle the rise in disruptive behaviour in schools – they need to be given greater authority, says Tony Blair’s think tank
Thursday
Stem focus should expand to Steam, MPs’ arts group says
Call made for curriculum review to give more prominence to music, art, sports, drama and vocational subjects
Only 6 in 10 schools used NTP in final year after funding cut
Reduction of government subsidy for the National Tutoring Programme caused a big drop-off in school participation in 2023-24
Wednesday
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: All you need to know
Tes outlines the key details of planned legislation that could result in significant changes to academy powers, pupil safeguarding and requirements on schools
Quarter of secondaries record a weapons incident
Poor pupil behaviour is affecting the wellbeing of most teachers and school leaders, DfE research shows
Tuesday
Schools minister refuses to rule out trust pay cuts
Catherine McKinnell would only say that teachers with pay deals outside of national guidelines should not face ‘detriment’ due to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: key information for schools
After the bill proposed a raft of changes for schools, we asked the Department for Education to clarify the key details
‘Failing’ schools won’t have to academise under Labour bill
All teachers to have same ‘core pay and conditions’ under Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, being brought to Parliament today
