On the first day of its annual conference in Liverpool, the NEU has released analysis showing that just nine of the 150 local authorities in receipt of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) funding...
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In her inaugural presidential address, Rachel Dickinson said that a decade of education reform has led to "one of the most autonomous school systems in the world" and fragmentation of responsibility for...
The schools - some of which receive local authority funding - are potentially putting children at risk, warns the inspectorate. Some have poor facilities and hygiene, untrained and unchecked staff, and...
The move has been welcomed by leading youth organisations, which have been calling for a "new, bolder approach to youth strategy" tailored to the specific challenges facing young people today. The news...
The Department for Education figures also reveal that the proportion of looked-after children and children in need who were persistently absent from school increased in 2017/18.
The average Attainment...
Speaking as chair of the Commons work and pensions committee, Field accused the government of treating the committee and indirectly its witnesses, including single parents, "like dirt". The former welfare...
Education committee chair Robert Halfon has written to Education Secretary Damian Hinds, saying the move is needed to help tackle knife crime.
Handing councils greater powers to monitor exclusions could...
Figures released by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) show a total of 13,536 applications made from March 2018 to April 2019.
This compares with 14,221 for the same...
Article 39 director Carolyne Willow said Feltham YOI's closure was "long overdue" after young offenders aged 16 and 17 at Feltham YOI left 13 members of staff requiring hospital treatment at the weekend....