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21 April 2026

Author: John Dickens

School sex abuse review: The Ofsted proposals, and what DfE has committed to

Ofsted has published its review into school sex abuse today. But what will change for schools? Here is your trusty Schools Week round-up of what the watchdog called for, and what the government has committed to do.   What Ofsted wants schools to do: 1. A relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) curriculum that includes […]

Revealed: Oak bosses鈥� bid for 拢41m payday

Oak bosses would have been in line for a £41 million payday under their preferred proposal for the future of the online school. A Schools Week investigation revealed last week how Oak’s management team submitted plans to turn the taxpayer-funded online school into a private company. The proposal was withdrawn after being deemed ‘unworkable’. But […]

Oak Academy scrambles to secure future as privatisation plan pulled

Oak National Academy’s future set-up has still to be finalised just weeks before government funding runs out – after a privatisation plan, by which employees could have made millions, was pulled. A Schools Week investigation has established Oak management tabled a proposal whereby they would become majority shareholders of a “social purpose company” to run […]

Editor asks: Baroness Berridge, academies minister

Conservative peer Baroness Berridge was appointed academies minister in February last year, a month before Covid-19 forced  nationwide school closures. She spoke to Schools Week editor John Dickens in her first interview.   What are your top three priorities? The first one is achieving every child in a good school. I talk about a triple […]

Speed read: Williamson’s 7 policies to revive the academies drive

Gavin Williamson has announced a raft of new policies today that he hopes will push towards the government’s “vision” for all schools to be academies. The announcement was made in a speech (which can be read in full here) today at the Confederation of School Trusts (CST) annual conference.   1. Consultation on long-term RI […]

‘Try before you buy鈥� academy offer 鈥� what you need to know

Trusts running schools on service-level agreements has long featured in the sector. What’s new today is that the government has published a “model” service-level agreement, and the education secretary has encouraged local authority schools to make use of it. Gavin Williamson said “now is the moment to spread out” use of the schemes so schools […]

It turns out teachers aren鈥檛 being trusted on grades

On Thursday evening, Ofqual sneaked out a major and fundamental shift in the quality assurance process for this summer’s cancelled exams, almost literally under the cover of darkness. It came in a friendly, seemingly innocuous blog, rather than in proper revised guidance; it feels like a gut punch to teachers and schools, delivered by an […]

DfE’s ‘orphan’ school trust takes financial hit as Covid scuppers expansion

The ‘bad bank’ academy trust set up by government to turn around orphan schools has been hit by cashflow problems as Covid scuppered its expansion plans. Newly-published accounts for the trust also reveal it has paid Delta Academies Trust £171,000 for secondments, including that of Gareth Mason as chief executive, who left the role last […]

ITT market review proposals will be put out to public consultation

The government will run a public consultation on the proposals of its controversial teacher training market review before they are implemented. Academies minister Baroness Berridge confirmed the consultation in the House of Lords today where she was told the review “appears to have alienated virtually every provider of teacher training in the country”. Schools Week […]