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The number of education, health and care (EHC) plans issued to pupils in England has risen by 11 per cent in a year, continuing an upward trend seen over the past four years. New government data shows that there were 354,000 children and young people with education, health and care plans maintained by local authorities […]

All schools must have access to new careers hubs and be held to account for the advice and guidance they provide, a landmark review of post-18 education has said. The review, by Philip Augar (pictured below), mostly focuses on further and higher education, but also warns of “weaknesses in the provision of information, advice and […]

The Department for Education and the government’s Insolvency Service have signed an agreement to regularly share information about academy trusts – making it easier to ban trustees who flout the rules. A new memorandum of understanding (MoU) seeks to “facilitate the regular exchange of information” between the two organisations, which “need to be able to […]

Campaigners and parents will march on Downing Street today to demand an increase in SEND funding. The SEND National Crisis campaign wants the government to better meet the needs of SEND pupils, and bridge the estimated £1.2 billion shortfall in high needs funding in England that has opened up since 2015. This is clearly a […]

The government’s Migration Advisory Committee has urged against expanding the list of subjects for which schools can freely recruit teachers from outside Europe, after it ruled that the profession’s vacancy rate is “around average”. The MAC, which advises ministers on migration issues, has recommended that while secondary maths, physics, general science, computer science and Mandarin […]

The government has been forced to update a list of academy trusts named and shamed for failing to justify executive pay after a chain was included by mistake. Earlier this month, the Department for Education published a list of 31 academy trusts who had received a second warning for being “non-compliant” with its order to […]

A new advisory group formed to review the content of initial teacher training will focus on the time trainees spend in school. Professor Sam Twiselton, director of the Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University, told Schools Week the review would seek to persuade all schools of “the benefit to them, but also their obligation […]

The government has been accused of passing the buck over 11-plus admissions tests in Kent. Documents seen by Schools Week show that the campaign group Comprehensive Future was referred to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) when it complained to the Department for Education about the testing regime used for selective school admissions in […]