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25 Mar 22
The government does not understand why different academy schools perform differently financially and poor access to local information is harming scrutiny of individual trusts, Parliament’s Public...
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4 Mar 22
The government’s reliance on national figures of English schools’ finances hides “cruel divides” that leave some children with poor education and lower life chances, a group of MPs has warned.
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25 Nov 21
The proportion of schools run by local authorities reporting deficits more than doubled in five years as cost pressures on the mainstream education system rose faster than funding, the National...
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12 Nov 21
Proposals from the government’s review into special educational needs and disability will aim to reduce regional disparities in providing care when it is published next year, according to a minister.
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5 Nov 21
The government’s proposals to scrap a £50m school improvement grant has been criticised by local authorities, with educations budgets already stretched.
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30 Sep 21
Bristol City Council has written to ministers appealing for help to deal with a forecast £24m overspend in its schools budget this year.
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2 Jun 21
The government has come under fire for an “insufficient” £1.4bn education package aimed at providing additional tutoring help recover lost Covid-19 teaching.
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7 May 21
More than £900m spent on reducing the gap in GCSE results between disadvantaged and affluent children in Northern Ireland “has not made any demonstrable difference”, a damning report has found.
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23 Mar 21
Five local authorities will receive almost £100m combined over the next five financial years, to help fill deficits in their special educational needs and disability budgets.
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24 Aug 20
Rebuilding a sustainable post-coronavirus economy requires an incresase in spending on improving the health of our poorest children
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20 Jul 20
Schools across England are set to receive an additional £4.8bn in pupil funding in 2021.
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29 Jun 20
Prime minister Boris Johnson has promised funding of £1bn for 50 major school building projects in England.
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7 May 20
The Department for Education is damaging the wellbeing and life chances of children with special educational needs and disabilities, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee.
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23 Apr 20
The Welsh government is making £33m available to councils to continue free school meals for children over the summer holidays.
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30 Jan 20
Local authorities in England will now be required to provide minimum levels of funding for all schools, sparking criticism from council leaders.
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6 Dec 19
The three main parties are unlikely to deliver on their manifesto pledges to reduce the education opportunity gap, according to think-tank analysis.
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22 Nov 19
Leaders of small, rural primary schools fear that funding constraints could see their school closed, a poll has revealed.
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13 Nov 19
Our education system is failing pupils on an unprecedented scale as teaching to the test turns education into a ‘slow-motion car crash for our young people’, writes the National Education Union’...
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12 Nov 19
Boris Johnson’s schools funding plans are “too little, too late”, the National Education Union has warned.
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1 Nov 19
Council overspending on free school transport will continue as the cost of the service is expected to increase by 11% over the next five years, umbrella groups have warned.
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24 Oct 19
Special educational needs and disability reforms have failed a generation of children and young people, MPs have said.
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11 Oct 19
English multi-academy trusts and local authority schools have “very high” rates of unexplained pupil exits, research by a think-tank has found.
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20 Sep 19
Further education spending increases promised by government will still leave colleges £1.1bn worse off than 2010 levels, analysis has found.
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19 Sep 19
The UK spends more than other countries on education, although there are still a few sticking points, such as university student costs, explains HEPI’s Nick Hillman.
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16 Sep 19
A “revolution” in further education was promised by the Liberal Democrats at their conference at the weekend.