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The government will amend the school admissions code to “accelerate” the process of moving vulnerable children between schools, Damian Hinds has announced today. The education secretary told an event organised by the Reform think tank today that it was “very, very important” for so-called children in need to be in school to help them avoid […]

Three senior national officials at one of the country’s largest teaching unions have been serving lengthy suspensions following disputes with the organisation’s top team, Schools Week can reveal. In one case, a senior staffer at NASUWT has been off work for more than a year and a half, while two others were suspended around a […]

The government will spend up to £20 million supplying free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England, it has emerged. The chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his spring statement that all secondary pupils would get access to free sanitary products from September this year in a bid to fight period poverty. Details of the […]

The Department for Education’s most senior civil servant has said he wants to build the department’s reputation as “a trustworthy communicator of statistics” after ministers received another slap-down from the stats watchdog. Jonathan Slater, the permanent secretary to the DfE, has written to the UK Statistics Authority to promise action to make information provided by […]

Ministers have been accused of leaving “loopholes” in new relationships and sex education guidance after it emerged some Jewish schools were advised by lawyers to show a “united front” to prevent the teaching of LGBT issues. The new guidance, finalised last month, states that that schools are “expected” to teach LGBT content as part of […]

Money handed back to the government by an academy trust that collapsed two years ago must be returned to the schools it abandoned, a Labour MP has said. The Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) has confirmed it gave an undisclosed sum to the Department for Education after ending its latest accounting period with a cash […]

Schools are being encouraged to put up posters to make it clear to pupils, parents and visitors that they won’t tolerate abuse of their staff. Teaching union NASUWT has produced two posters for schools as part of an ongoing campaign to support teachers and heads in tackling pupil indiscipline. The union wants schools to emulate […]

Schools in areas with high levels of serious youth violence should remain open in the evenings and at weekends as part of “emergency measures” to tackle the problem, the children’s commissioner has said. Anne Longfield told the parliamentary education committee that knife crime was a “massive concern” for her office, and warned of “a really […]

Teachers in the largest academy trusts are promoted on average three years earlier than their peers in LA-maintained schools, but they’re also more likely to quit the profession, new research has found. A study by the Ambition Institute and the Education Policy Institute found that teachers in so-called “system leader” academy trusts, those with 12,000 […]