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24 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

NASUWT admits breaking law over Chris Keates term of office

The NASUWT teaching union has admitted breaching union law by allowing its general secretary to overstay her term of office. Russ Walters, the union’s honorary treasurer, told a hearing of the Certification Officer in London this morning that the union believed “incorrectly” that Keates was entitled to serve for an additional six months because she […]

School happiness fades with age, and 2 other wellbeing findings

The Department for Education has published its first “state of the nation” report on children and young people’s wellbeing. The report was pledged by former prime minister Theresa May in October last year. It is supposed to integrate the “available evidence” on the state of children and young people’s wellbeing. Here are three interesting findings […]

鈥業t鈥檚 a sham鈥� – union accused of keeping leader in post despite law breach

NASUWT’s appointment of its former general secretary on an acting basis after she overstayed her term of office is a “sham”, it has been claimed. Richard Harris, a former NASUWT employee representing former executive member Susan Parlour in her complaint against the union, told a hearing of the Certification Officer today that the union was […]

Liberty: ‘Secret’ Prevent database ‘destroys’ trust between teachers and pupils

A human rights charity has warned of a potential breakdown in trust between teachers and pupils after details emerged of a “secret” police database containing information gathered by school staff. Freedom of information requests by Liberty revealed the existence of the National Police Prevent Case Management database, which it claims is used to collate “sensitive personal […]

SEND campaigners lose High Court case against government funding cuts

Campaigners against cuts to special educational needs and disabilities funding have lost a High Court battle after judges ruled the government did not act unlawfully. Families representing pupils with SEND announced last September that they were crowdfunding a legal challenge against the then education secretary Damian Hinds and chancellor Philip Hammond, challenging real-terms cuts to […]

‘Partial QTS’ for European SEND teachers will be scrapped under no-deal Brexit

Special educational needs teachers from the European Economic Area won’t be eligible for partial qualified teacher status in England if the country leaves the EU without a deal, the government has announced. At present, teachers from the EEA who are only qualified to teach SEND pupils can apply for partial qualified teacher status in England […]

TBAP trust to give up two schools

The embattled TBAP Multi-Academy Trust will give up two of its schools as it seeks to “consolidate” its resources. TBAP, which runs alternative provision academies for those outside the mainstream education system, will relinquish control of Aspire AP Academy in Harlow, Essex and the New Horizons AP Academy in Warrington. The two schools will be […]

DfE forced to update progress 8 scores AGAIN after GCSE statistics error

Another error in the progress 8 scores provided to schools by the government has been identified, this time related to GCSE statistics. Schools Week understands some pupils have had their GCSE statistics results double-weighted in their progress 8 score instead of maths, leading to an incorrect overall score for their school. In other cases, statistics […]

Gavin Williamson’s conference speech: The full text

It is a great honour to serve as Education Secretary…   Serving the young people who will become the leaders of tomorrow…   Working with the public servants … like those heroes from whom we just heard … who teach in our schools…   … who run our nurseries…   … lead our colleges…   […]