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The 10 new attendance rules schools need to know about
WEBFeb 29, 2024 · 6. Flag long-term sick leave with LAs. Schools will have to give councils the name and address of sick pupils who they believe will miss 15 consecutive or cumulative days. Schools will also be “expected to inform a pupil’s social worker and/or youth offending team worker if there are unexplained absences from school”.
SEND review: DfE finally publishes improvement plan - Schools Week
WEB2 Mar 2023, 10:00. Ministers finally published their special educational needs and disabilities improvement plan today, three years after the SEND review was first launched. The government has pledged to go ahead with most major reforms. However a £70 million “change programme” – which will run for two to three years – will pilot ...
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WEBSchool attendance: New ‘research commission’ to examine pupil engagement. Group to survey more than 100,000 school pupils, as new government quiet on future of attendance alliance. Freddie Whittaker. 2d.
James Cleverly: 12 facts about the new education secretary
WEBJul 7, 2022 · Cleverly is the MP for Braintree in Essex. He is the first education secretary or minister of education to hail from the county since Rab Butler. Like his predecessor, he was first elected in 2015. He has had a range of government roles, including as a cabinet minister without portfolio, as well as jobs at the Brexit department and Foreign Office.
Levelling-up white paper: 9 things schools need to know
WEBFeb 2, 2022 · 1. ‘UK National Academy’ to ‘stretch’ kids. The white paper pledges the creation of a new “UK National Academy”, which will “support pupils from all backgrounds and areas to succeed at the very highest levels”. The new academy will “harness cutting edge technology to ensure geography or income is no barrier to being ...
Teacher pay scales for 2020-21 revealed - Schools Week
WEBSep 23, 2020 · 89,919 – 125,098. Add your thoughts. The new teacher and school leadership pay rates for 2020-21 have been confirmed by the Department for Education. In July, the DfE announced salaries for new teachers would rise by 5.5 per cent this year year, with the upper and lower boundaries of the pay ranges for …
Labour education 'mission': Full details revealed - Schools Week
WEBJul 6, 2023 · Schools should be held to account for pupils’ attainment in at least one creative or vocational subject, Labour has said, in a document setting out its education “mission”.. The document, seen by Schools Week ahead of its official publication later today, sets out more details of the party’s planned curriculum and assessment review, which it said would look at accountability measures.
Ofsted's science subject report: What leaders need to know
WEBFeb 2, 2023 · The latest document draws on Ofsted’s 2021 science research review, and finds that science curriculums are improving despite ongoing challenges caused by Covid. But it says improvements still required, including the amount of opportunities for practical work offered within secondary schools. Chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, said she was ...
Teacher pay: What schools need to know about the 6.5% offer
WEB13 Jul 2023, 14:29. Teachers and school leaders have been offered pay rises of 6.5 per cent from September. Schools will be expected to fund 3.5 per cent from their own budgets, with the remaining 3 per cent coming from cuts to the Department for Education’s own budget. The deal has the backing of unions, which have said they will recommend ...