Funding

A headteacher outlines why those in education should welcome the Department for Education’s move to tackle for-profit care home providers

DfE is to take ‘a fundamental look’ at the SEND system and it is working with the Treasury on a solution for council deficits

The removal of the grant to support conversions of maintained schools into academies could slow down trust growth and make small trusts untenable, find Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Jasmine Norden

Senior education figures set out challenges for schools interested in bidding for government funding for nursery provision

A political solution is essential as Scottish councils seek cuts to music, says Alastair Orr

Government could use money saved through falling pupil rolls to provide extra funding for students who are long-term disadvantaged, says EPI report

Child Poverty Action Group is calling for an urgent review of the free school meal threshold, after revealing the extent of school dinner debt incurred by schools

Most secondaries are failing to adhere to the government-mandated School Food Standards, research shows. The reasons are complex and demand attention, schools and trusts tell Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Fears mount over future of instrument tuition in Scotland after a move that puts music education for younger pupils ‘at risk’

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

The General Teaching Council for Scotland says it is ‘planning to increase the fee on an incremental basis from April 2025’

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