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Education secretary unveils a raft of measures aimed at making mainstream schools more inclusive, including SEND advisers and a neurodiversity task group

Core Education Trust in Birmingham has created a ‘lead practitioners’ programme aimed at spreading subject expertise across its family of four secondary schools

A student leaving Year 13 in 2040 is already in early years. This is why we need a collective purpose for the coming years and decades, argue three education leaders

Many multi-academy trust boards have diversity policies that have not yet translated into reality, according to analysis by the Confederation of School Trusts

Analysis comes as the IFS warns that the funding increase for 2025-26 will get ‘swallowed up by ongoing cost pressures’

The Confederation of School Trusts is ‘seeking reassurance’ over DfE’s planned approach to supporting schools

Vicky Marsh talks through a typical week in her role, from schools visits and executive meetings, to finding time for admin and using a headteachers’ WhatsApp group effectively

Chief education officers at Greenwood Academies Trust tell Tes what they are proudest of, and why they both think Geoff Barton has made a huge difference

It will ‘become much more difficult’ for trusts to support maintained schools that need help without the funding, trust leaders warn

Multi-academy trusts are yet to receive a decision on funding bids that were meant to start over the summer in what leaders describe as an ‘incredibly frustrating’ delay

After setting up our first 14 hubs, our schools have reported increased parental involvement in children’s education and better attendance, writes United Learning CEO Sir Jon Coles

This academic year, councils will spend £2.1bn to send pupils with SEND to independent schools. Is a new model of partnering a local authority and a MAT the way forward?