Dr Dan Nicholls, currently deputy CEO at Cabot Learning Federation, will take up new role from September

Tes' essential education news round-up includes the three main political parties setting out their policies for schools ahead of next month's election

New data shows an increase in the number of education, health and care plans and requests for assessments at a time when funding is being squeezed

One head in an ASCL poll warns that the only thing left to cut is teaching staff after 'paring everything back to the bone'

School leaders believe their staff need 'increased confidence' in handling bullying incidents, according to a DfE-funded report

Council urged to abandon plans to put its instrumental music service in an arm’s-length body, amid fears the plans could have Scotland-wide ramifications

Analysis shows strong support for hiring more teachers and increasing apprenticeships but a negative response to dropping single-word Ofsted judgements

EIS members in Glasgow vote heavily in favour of taking in favour of action that could result in strikes

The Conservative Party pledges to make guidance on banning mobile phones statutory and to protect 'day-to-day' per pupil spending on schools

Education bodies and unions collectively call for all political parties to commit to a plan to invest the funding needed to eradicate all school cuts

Lib Dems pledge to make teacher pay fully funded and independent, and to cut the amount schools pay towards education, health and care plans

Spending money on managing SEND deficits rather than meeting children's needs is a situation 'close to madness', says the union

Labour sets out plan to turn primary school classrooms into 3,300 new nurseries

Analysis suggests school-based counselling would provide an eight-fold financial benefit to the government

Special schools have suffered a £419 million real-terms cut in spending power over 14 years, unions warn