Schools Week journalists have been recognised at the for their agenda-setting investigative reporting. Jessica Hill, our features and investigations reporter, scooped the award for 鈥渂est built environment journalism鈥 for her prescient and extensive coverage of the RAAC crisis, months before government grasped the severity of the problem and shut schools. Judges said it was a 鈥渇antastic piece of journalism and a reminder that sector specialist magazines can and should scoop the national media. 鈥淭he winner highlighted the problem of aerated concrete in schools 鈥 which become a national obsession nine months later.鈥 Our award-winning RAAC investigations: The 鈥榯icking time bomb鈥 leaving schools 鈥榣iable to collapse鈥 Councils dawdle on surveying collapse risk building material Meanwhile Samantha Booth, our chief reporter, was highly commended in the 鈥渂est specialist journalism category鈥 for her campaigning reporting exposing the crisis in the special educational needs system.Judges praised Booth鈥檚 鈥渉uge investigative efforts in a topic that rarely features in national headlines鈥. Our highly-commended SEND investigations: The Great SEND School Robbery 鈥楧isturbing neglect鈥 as severely disabled children left to go hungry How inclusive are mainstream schools? Schools Week was shortlisted in three categories. Of 800 entries into the awards, just 180 made the shortlist and 30 won. Schools Week editor John Dickens said the awards were a 鈥渢remendous achievement by two fantastic journalists. “We were shortlisted alongside the best and biggest media outlets in the country and I couldn鈥檛 be prouder that our agenda-setting journalism, delivering impact for the education sector, has been recognised.鈥 Press Gazette editor-in-chief and chairman of the judges Dominic Ponsford said last night: 鈥淥ur business is important because it is the one which holds all others to account. 鈥淪queezed as we are by the dark forces of online advertising technology, under attack by litigious oligarchs and in more danger than ever when reporting on conflicts overseas 鈥 tonight is a night to forget all that and celebrate a job well done.鈥