Budget 2023: Hunt wants all primaries to provide ‘wraparound’ childcare New ‘ambition’ that all children are able to access 8am to 6pm childcare provision in school by 2026, but just 拢289m to fund it
DfE will consider new requirement to teach about suicide prevention Minister: Mental health will be ‘priority area’ in the upcoming review of relationships, sex and health education guidance
Revealed: Oak names new curriculum partners But contracts to create lessons for two subjects not awarded as bids ‘did not meet high quality bar’
Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.
Home Office U-turn on blasphemy guidance Department now ‘looking to draft new guidance’ after Quran incident
Ofqual chief would use exam conditions for coursework amid ChatGPT fears Dr Jo Saxton says concern over AI cheating ‘reinforces the importance’ of exams
SEND contextual league tables plan shelved DfE claims proposals had ‘mixed feedback’, with concerns it could ‘risk generating perverse incentives’
Oak founders abandon national academy At least seven of Oak鈥檚 original 11 trust curriculum partners have snubbed the new quango by choosing not to bid to provide new lessons
DfE snubs Braverman pledge for new blasphemy guidance The under-fire home secretary had promised new advice amid row over damaged Quran school pupil suspensions