Funding

Over three years the ‘education service reform’ would mean teacher numbers being cut in primaries and secondaries and a reduction in promoted posts

Ten minutes of registration at the start of the school day could be brought back by one council five years after it was scrapped, despite the general trend of local authority cuts

The financial difficulties of MATs and councils should be a wake-up call that we need a new approach to SEND funding, says this trust finance officer, who suggests a solution

As schools struggle with ever-diminishing budgets, one early years lead shares the impact of a lack of funding on her pupils – and how her team are trying to combat it

More staff and better training urgently needed to help pupils with additional support needs – even coffee shops set the bar higher for mandatory training, Additional Support for Learning Inquiry hears

Schools and trusts with private finance initiative contracts should start planning for when the deal expires – even if that’s several years in the future, says this legal expert

The survey findings come after free school meals were extended to every primary school pupil in London for a second year

Services such as social work, libraries and youth work will suffer if the Scottish government pushes ahead with plans to ring-fence £145.5m for school staff, say councils

The ADES president also discusses an education system ‘in limbo’, approaches to teacher CPD, teacher numbers and why education directors are not resting on their laurels

Half of school business professionals warn their school is set to run out of money within three years

Supply spend is rising across the schools system, with leaders citing the growing support needs of pupils, teacher shortages and higher supply prices as cost drivers

Schools and colleges that do not meet minimum teaching hours for maths and English GCSE resit students will face funding cuts