Englands World Leading Attendance Drive Continues
Next phase of DfE's world-leading attendance drive will provide new data for schools to help them spot trends in children's attendance for earlier intervention.
Updated: Fri May 10 2024
Breaking barriers: School's drive to close the attainment gap using tutoring
Executive headteacher at The Green Way Academy, Simon Bush, shares his experience of using the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to support disadvantaged pupils during the school holidays.
Updated: Thu May 09 2024
Government expands support for pupils with SEND
Locations announced for 16 new special free schools and trusts appointed at a further 7 schools, providing thousands of vital places across England.
Updated: Thu May 09 2024
Prime Minister to call on university leaders to protect Jewish students
Vice Chancellors from some of the country's leading universities will join forces with the government today (9 May) to discuss actions to address the rise in antisemitic abuse on campus and disruption to students' learning.
Updated: Thu May 09 2024
Government To Lift Cap on Faith School Places
Government to launch consultation on lifting the 50% cap alongside proposals on opening special faith-based academies.
Updated: Wed May 01 2024
Teachers to get up to 6000 extra to teach vital subjects
The incentive is backed by £200 million investment to support schools and colleges attract and retain the excellent teachers they need in vital subjects.
Updated: Tue Apr 23 2024
Landmark Childcare Rollout on Track
Government publishes new data showing 195,355 children benefitting from government-funded childcare for two-year-olds in successful April launch.
Updated: Fri Apr 19 2024
How joining a school business professional network could help you with buying for your school
In the latest Buying for Schools blog post, network Chair Frances Rowland explains how the ABLE network supports school business professionals, and why you should consider joining a network if you're not a member already.
Updated: Tue Apr 16 2024
What is social value and how can schools and trusts benefit from it?
Find out why the Get help buying for schools service wants to work with schools and trusts to ensure they are getting not just value for money, but wider social value from their procurements, and why schools shouldn't be afraid to ask suppliers what additional value they can bring to the table.
Updated: Tue Apr 16 2024
Supporting every learner using the National Tutoring Programme
Executive Headteacher at the Imperium Federation, Meic Griffiths, shares his experience using the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to support pupils at the federation.
Updated: Mon Apr 15 2024
Primary school offer day 2024: Everything you need to know
Parents of three and four-year-olds will soon find out what primary school has offered their child a place for the next academic year. The majority of pupils will be offered a place at one of their preferred primary schools, while ...
Updated: Tue Apr 09 2024
Parents to save thousands in childcare cost with new funding
First phase of the biggest ever expansion of childcare starts giving working parents of two-year-olds access to 15 hours a week.
Updated: Tue Apr 02 2024
Government delivering on 60,000 more special needs places
Councils are to receive a record £850 million cash boost to ensure children across the country receive an education that meets their needs.
Updated: Wed Mar 27 2024
New PE guidance for schools strengthens equal access to sport
Ahead of a huge summer of sport in 2024, schools will receive new guidance on delivering two hours of PE a week, and equal access to sport and PE.
Updated: Mon Mar 25 2024
How schools are using data to improve school attendance
In this blog, we hear from attendance leads from a school and a trust explain how they are using the Monitor Your School Attendance tool to improve strategies to attendance and have more meaningful conversations with families, head teachers and local authorities.
Updated: Thu Mar 21 2024
National Tutoring Programme funding used to deliver holiday tuition
Assistant headteacher, James Chamberlain, shares how he used his school's National Tutoring Programme (NTP) funding to introduce holiday tuition.
Updated: Tue Mar 19 2024
Childcare applications for parents of 9-month-olds to open 12 May
Places boosted even further with new measures to support childminders, and funding rates confirmed for all childcare providers ahead of historic rollout
Updated: Fri Mar 15 2024
How we're supporting university students with their mental health
Going to university is a fun and exciting time for most students - but it comes with unique challenges and stresses. We believe that all students' mental health and wellbeing should be properly supported during their time at university. There ...
Updated: Thu Mar 14 2024
Education Secretary addresses the ASCL Annual Conference
Gillian Keegan recently (08 March 2024) addressed school and college leaders at the ASCL Annual Conference in Liverpool.
Updated: Mon Mar 11 2024
Minister Halfon Speech for Landex Conference
Minister Halfon recently delivered a speech about land-based colleges, and the difference they make at a local and national level across the country.
Updated: Thu Mar 07 2024
How we're encouraging children at our school to read for pleasure
Liz Kenny, english hub lead, and Vanessa Hill, headteacher, at Whiston Worrygoose Primary school in Rotherham talk about their approach to encouraging reading, and the benefits it's brought their pupils.
Updated: Mon Mar 04 2024
Using Get help buying for schools to buy cleaning services for my trust
Lisa Jones is Director of Finance and Resources for the Consortium Trust. In this blog post, Lisa shares her experience of using Get help buying for schools to buy cleaning services for 7 schools in her trust.
Updated: Mon Mar 04 2024
Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2024 speech
Minister Robert Halfon's virtual speech to the Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2024 in Birmingham (27 February 2024).
Updated: Thu Feb 29 2024
New regulations for schools in next stage of attendance drive
Every state school in England will now share their daily attendance registers across the education sector.
Updated: Thu Feb 29 2024
Cyber security for schools - the benefits of the risk protection arrangement (RPA)
All school leaders, trustees, headteachers and governors are responsibility for making sure measures are in place that will help reduce the risk of a cybercrime.
Updated: Mon Feb 19 2024