Unions

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

In joint evidence to School Teachers’ Review Body, education unions also call for reverse to real-terms pay cuts

The increase would be ‘a real-terms pay cut’ and undermine the government’s target to recruit 6,500 teachers, a letter from four main education unions tells education secretary

Meanwhile, separate DfE statistics show a sharp increase in children who are in elective home education

Findings suggest many qualified teachers are working as TAs, but the notion they’ll get an ‘easy ride’ is ‘well wide of the mark’, warns union leader

Tomorrow’s Scottish Budget is the last chance for ministers to lay out a ‘very clear plan’ on how teachers’ class-contact time will be reduced, warns SNCT

One in three teachers and leaders tell DfE survey that they are considering leaving the profession in the next 12 months for reasons other than retirement

The formation of the government’s support staff negotiating body must lead to improved pay and conditions, says the UK’s largest union

Curriculum and assessment review chair Professor Becky Francis says concerns about volume of content in classrooms have come up in conversations with teachers, pupils and parents

ASCL says more government funding will be needed to address historic pay erosion and meet ministers’ target of recruiting 6,500 more teachers

Next week’s Scottish Budget will decide whether key education policies succeed, states the EIS in a letter seeking assurances from the first minister and the finance secretary

School leaders tend to operate in connected ‘communities’ – leaving thousands of schools missing out on leadership expertise, research warns