Teaching hopefuls asked for details of ‘any website you’re named on’ Safeguarding guidance states schools ‘should consider carrying out an online search’ on shortlisted candidates
More than 500 staff apply for DfE ‘voluntary exit’ scheme Staff ‘who don’t have the skills’ needed for the future offered pay-outs to leave by May
DfE schools director general to retire After 37 years in the civil service, McCully will retire in March to spend more time with his family
Ofqual disbands standards committee The standards advisory group, a committee of the Ofqual board, was set up more than a decade ago
Social mobility tsar quits: ‘I’m doing more harm than good’ Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been in post just over a year, tells Schools Week her reputation for controversial opinions ‘puts the commission in jeopardy’
Elite sixth forms and northern BRIT School among free school bids Only one in four of the more than 60 applications will be approved
Ofsted: School workforce crisis ‘compounding’ catch-up problems Recruitment and retention of staff must be ‘urgently addressed’
SEND tribunal appeals top 10,000 for the first time In the past academic year, 11,052 SEND appeals were registered 鈥� a 29 per cent rise from 8,579 the previous year
Revealed: Tutoring scheme missed disadvantage target Data suggests just 49% of tutoring reached disadvantaged pupils last year, well shy of the government’s original 65% target