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Small maternity wins are welcome, but we should strive for more

Weeks at full salary are doubled but with cuts elsewhere the 7.5% increase is hardly the gift the DfE would suggest, says Emma Sheppard The post Small maternity

Special school leaders call for clarity on future funding

Plans for national bandings on specialist provision packages ‘deeply concerning’ The post Special school leaders call for clarity on future funding first appeared on Schools Week.

Off-rolling curbs welcomed, but warnings over ‘gaps in data’

Ministers plan to tighten up scrutiny of pupil moves – and to interrogate leaders suspected of off-rolling The post Off-rolling curbs welcomed, but warnings over ‘gaps in data’

SEND reforms are a chance to change what we mean by ‘standards’

Let’s be clear about what ‘exceptional’ means now. Exceptional is a school where disadvantaged pupils thrive, not just attend The post SEND reforms are a chance to change

Minister’s rallying cry for expert SEND staff to return

Georgia Gould pledged staff like educational psychologists will be in classrooms under new ‘experts at hand’ service The post Minister’s rallying cry for expert SEND staff to return

DfE should support struggling private schools to become academies

A targeted approach could help provide a high-quality state-funded education to pupils from a wide range of backgrounds The post DfE should support struggling private schools to become

SEND reforms must strengthen legal foundations, not weaken them

Ministers themselves acknowledge that families have endured too much for too long. That is precisely why legal safeguards matter The post SEND reforms must strengthen legal foundations, not

Kevan Collins to be Phillipson’s SEND delivery adviser

Collins, already a senior DfE figure, will focus on white paper roll-out and reviewing how DfE ‘engages with councils’ The post Kevan Collins to be Phillipson’s SEND delivery

DfE wants to ditch ‘average’ labels for school progress scores

The current ‘confidence interval’ ratings can limit understanding of a school’s performance, the government has said The post DfE wants to ditch ‘average’ labels for school progress scores

Schools white paper: The key schools policies

Fair banding transparency, a crackdown on off-rolling and calls for all schools to be in trusts set out in landmark document The post Schools white paper: The key