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17 June 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

The 5 schools policies in Damian Hinds’s Conservative Party conference speech

  Schools will get access to funding to improve behaviour and careers advice, the education secretary will announce today. Damian Hinds is due to address the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham this afternoon, where he will set out his plans to create “a world class education for everyone, whatever path you take, whatever your background”. However, […]

Former Ofsted inspector warns inspections are ‘not very accurate’

Ofsted inspections are “not very accurate”, according to a former inspector, who has called for a “root and branch” review of the service provided by the watchdog. Richard Sheriff, the president of the Association of School and College Leaders, warned during a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference that Ofsted does not have the […]

Ignore the ‘fibbers’ over London’s school successes, says Hinds

Anyone who says they know why London’s schools have improved over the past two decades is a “fibber”, the education secretary has said. Damian Hinds told a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference that the reasons behind the transformation of educational performance in the capital are “much more complicated” than just one public policy programme. […]

Government to publish ‘school sport action plan’

Ministers will take action to get more pupils to play competitive sports in school, Damian Hinds has announced. The education secretary has set out proposals for a new “school sport action plan”, which will aim to increase opportunities for pupils to play more sports and train more teachers to lead and coach those opportunities in […]

High salaries don鈥檛 attract the best, says trust CEO

Academy trusts give too much control to “ambitious” leaders and offer them huge six-figure salaries in the mistaken belief that it will attract the best candidates, says the leader of one of England’s fastest-growing chains. Frank Norris, the director of the Co-operative Academies Trust, told Schools Week the governance structures of trusts that allowed their […]

Labour related-party transaction ban won’t apply to charities

Labour’s proposed ban on related-party transactions will apply only to linked commercial companies, Schools Week has learned. The party announced proposals to ban such transactions – deals between academy trusts or schools and linked private companies – on Sunday. It has now confirmed that the policy will be extended to local authority-maintained schools and academies. […]

Hinds defends extension of trainee teacher bursaries to more 2:2 graduates

The education secretary Damian Hinds has defended a move to relax the eligibility criteria for government teacher training bursaries, and admitted he’s looking at the “simplicity” of routes into the profession to encourage more graduates to join. The Department for Education announced on Thursday that bursaries for graduates training to be music, history, design and […]

Damian Hinds says 鈥榮orry鈥� for Whitehaven Academy scandal

The education secretary Damian Hinds has apologised to the families affected by the Whitehaven Academy scandal, and pledged to “do everything we can to stop it happening again”. In an exclusive interview with Schools Week ahead of the Conservative Party conference, Hinds said images of the Cumbria school’s squalid facilities depicted in a recent BBC […]