Special investigation: How collapsing mental health services are failing children Four-month investigation reveals the devastating toll on families and schools
Schools pick up the pieces as suicidal kids turned away from CAMHS Teachers are told to ‘keep them safe’ as schools are left to ‘plug the gap’
Special schools ‘bursting at seams’ – but DfE doesn’t collect the data Heads say the system is ‘completely overwhelmed’
‘Elite’ sixth forms have fewer poor students, study finds Ministers want more sixth forms that send pupils to top universities as part of ‘levelling-up’ agenda
Eight become nine as DfE shakes up RSC regions London to get new RSC and other areas redrawn to align regions with rest of government
EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap Gap for poorest pupils fails to improve since 2011
DfE says rising energy costs will have ‘relatively small impact’ on school budgets Government has told leaders they can shoulder ‘cost pressures’ from recent funding rises
Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won’t count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort
Covid pupil absences fall, but 320,000 still off Leaders still facing ‘major headache’ as almost one in ten staff remain absent