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13 Mar 19
The chancellor has handed an extra £100m to police in England over the next year, ring-fenced to help them tackle knife crime.
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5 Feb 19
Parents are being increasingly pressured into home-schooling leaving councils unable to ensure children are adequately educated, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.
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4 Feb 19
Between financial controversies and more fundamental questions about sustainability, the academies sector is crying out for transparency, writes Rachel Willcox.
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23 Jan 19
Academy schools are not “sufficiently transparent or accountable to parents and local communities”, MPs have said.
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18 Jan 19
Pressure on budgets is leading schools to resist admitting children with special educational needs, according to an education watchdog.
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20 Dec 18
Two-thirds of academy school groups performed below the national average for disadvantaged pupils, according to research released today.
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19 Dec 18
A cash injection to help councils provide services for children with special educational needs “isn’t enough”, school leaders have warned.
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17 Dec 18
Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
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8 Nov 18
Academy schools in England recorded a £6.1bn deficit at the end of last August, leading to one major teaching union calling them “unsustainable”.
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28 Sep 18
More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
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25 Sep 18
Labour would scrap academies and free schools and return control of education back to councils, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the party’s conference in Liverpool today.
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17 Sep 18
The education funding squeeze for 16 to 18 year olds in England is “clear and worrying”, a think-tank report has said.
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14 Sep 18
The Welsh government will receive £23.5m to fund teachers’ pay rises, the UK government has said.
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6 Sep 18
Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
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3 Sep 18
Council leaders have warned of a secondary school “emergency” after calculating 134,000 children will miss out on a place in 2023-24.
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31 Aug 18
With cuts to budgets and falling local authority support, schools are calling for more funding in next year’s spending review, writes Karen Day.
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25 Jun 18
Let’s end the commodification of our public services and start valuing them as public goods that serve the interest of society, argues John Tizard.
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4 Jun 18
If the government is serious about improving the life chances of poorer children, it should reconsider its plans for grammar schools, says the Education Policy Institute’s Natalie Perera.
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25 May 18
The schools watchdog has failed to hit targets while suffering “constants cuts” to its budget for more than a decade, the National Audit Office has said.
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25 May 18
The Scottish Government has allocated £50m of funding for schools to help close the attainment gap in the country.
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23 May 18
The government has confirmed where £6m of previously announced money to improve maths in the North is to go.
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14 May 18
County councils are dipping into generic schools grants to manage overspending on special needs education, an umbrella group has found.
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27 Apr 18
The education minister has come under fire from both sides of the Commons for failing to confirm schools will not see cuts as a result of the new funding formula.
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3 Apr 18
The governance, accountability and financial management of academy trusts running schools in England “fall short”, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
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26 Mar 18
Children in the North of England face being “left behind” because they are more likely to come from a poor community and attend a weak school, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said...
13 Mar 19The chancellor has handed an extra £100m to police in England over the next year, ring-fenced to help them tackle knife crime.
5 Feb 19Parents are being increasingly pressured into home-schooling leaving councils unable to ensure children are adequately educated, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.
4 Feb 19Between financial controversies and more fundamental questions about sustainability, the academies sector is crying out for transparency, writes Rachel Willcox.
23 Jan 19Academy schools are not “sufficiently transparent or accountable to parents and local communities”, MPs have said.
18 Jan 19Pressure on budgets is leading schools to resist admitting children with special educational needs, according to an education watchdog.
20 Dec 18Two-thirds of academy school groups performed below the national average for disadvantaged pupils, according to research released today.
19 Dec 18A cash injection to help councils provide services for children with special educational needs “isn’t enough”, school leaders have warned.
17 Dec 18Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
28 Sep 18More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
17 Sep 18The education funding squeeze for 16 to 18 year olds in England is “clear and worrying”, a think-tank report has said.
14 Sep 18The Welsh government will receive £23.5m to fund teachers’ pay rises, the UK government has said.
6 Sep 18Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
31 Aug 18With cuts to budgets and falling local authority support, schools are calling for more funding in next year’s spending review, writes Karen Day.
25 Jun 18Let’s end the commodification of our public services and start valuing them as public goods that serve the interest of society, argues John Tizard.
25 May 18The Scottish Government has allocated £50m of funding for schools to help close the attainment gap in the country.
14 May 18County councils are dipping into generic schools grants to manage overspending on special needs education, an umbrella group has found.
27 Apr 18The education minister has come under fire from both sides of the Commons for failing to confirm schools will not see cuts as a result of the new funding formula.
3 Apr 18The governance, accountability and financial management of academy trusts running schools in England “fall short”, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
