However, there are “gaps in the data that the government will need to address”. Managed moves are not recorded nationally and ...

Ministers have been urged to clarify how special schools will be funded under their white paper reforms. The document pledged ...

The SEND reforms consultation paper said conditions would be placed on the inclusion funding to ensure it is spent on an ...

It is a change in what we mean by the word “standards” in the first place. Not standards that work when pupils arrive ready ...

VAT on school fees, the end of charitable business rates relief, a big hike in national insurance contributions, falling pupil rolls. Whichever way you look at it, private schools in England have had ...

Any weakening of those safeguards risks leaving parents without meaningful recourse when provision fails. If government truly ...

Private schools wanting to convert to academies are “left in the dark” due to a lack of guidance on the process, a new report has found, with just 1 per cent of settings converting in the space of a ...

Lydia Michaelson-Yeates, of law firm Browne Jacobson, stated the “big challenge for government is how fast and easily” it can ...

Overall, this white paper sets out significant ambitions and provides a potential roadmap toward a system that works for all.

Kevan Collins has been appointed as the education secretary’s delivery adviser with a focus on SEND reform and reviewing how the department engages with councils. Collins, the Department for Education ...

Schools will no longer be publicly compared to the national “average” for their progress scores in a proposed overhaul of government league tables. Instead, ministers are prop ...

As revealed by Schools Week, government is specifically looking at using income data, rather than the “binary metric” of free school meals eligibility, to assess which pupils attract extra funding, ...