Weekly round-up: Strike warnings and training reform

Catch up on all your must-read Tes news and analysis from the past seven days right here:

• NEU: Teacher anger must be ‘ramped up’ for strike ballot
  England’s biggest teaching union, which announced a preliminary ballot on strike action, has said that teacher “engagement and anger” will need to be “ramped up” for its campaign on teacher pay and school funding to succeed.
• Leaders ‘must retain’ right to strike over Ofsted ‘danger’
  School leaders must not be stopped from challenging “unsafe environments” under the government’s plan to restrict future teacher strikes, the NAHT school leaders’ union has warned.
• Ofsted must ‘ensure inspectors have expertise’
  Ofsted should ensure its lead inspectors have “expertise” in the type of school they are inspecting, MPs have said in a major report urging the watchdog to “rebuild trust”.
• Ofsted: Alternative provision in ‘desperate need of reform’
  Ofsted has warned that alternative provision is being used “inappropriately” as a stopgap to cover for shortcomings in the SEND system and is in “desperate need of reform”.
• Ofsted inspectors to complete training on small schools
  Ofsted inspectors are undergoing new training on understanding small schools that they will need to complete before being able to inspect settings with 150 or fewer pupils.
• Early career and trainee teachers to share updated framework
  The Department for Education has updated and combined the training frameworks for early career and trainee teachers in a bid to boost recruitment and retention.
• GCSEs and A levels 2023: How did schools perform?
  Tes reveals the key trends in the newly published final data for the 2023 GCSE and A-level results.
• Is the end nigh for Progress 8 - and if not, should it be?
  With P8 increasingly under fire from critics, a suspension of it occurring imminently and Labour eyeing reform, Grainne Hallahan looks at whether the measure is on its way out.
• MPs call for ‘realistic’ plan for SEND funding shortfall
  The government should review the education, health and care plan system and consider reforms to make special educational needs and disability provision sustainable, according to MPs.
• EYFS recruitment bonus ‘is a sticking plaster’
  Headteachers and early years sector leaders have warned that plans for a new government recruitment campaign and introductory bonus payments will not be enough to solve staffing problems.
• ‘Invisible glass ceiling’ blocks teachers of colour
  The government should launch an action plan to improve diversity within the teaching profession, according to a report warning that teachers of colour face barriers to entry into leadership.
• Schools wanted for ChatGPT teacher workload trial
  Secondary schools in England are being urged to take part in a trial to test whether ChatGPT can cut teacher workload in one of the first tests of its kind.
• Call for mandatory autism training for teachers
  A Conservative MP put a bill before Parliament this week that would introduce mandatory autism training for teachers.

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