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New mobile phone guidance: What does it mean for schools?

From tougher guidance to Ofsted inspections – Schools Week breaks down everything you need to know… The post New mobile phone guidance: What does it mean for schools?

Our trust peer reviews provide lessons for upcoming legislation

Our experience could guide the blueprint for trust inspections, says Kate Chhatwal The post Our trust peer reviews provide lessons for upcoming legislation first appeared on Schools Week.

Ensuring trusts are fit for purpose isn’t a job you finish overnight

In a system under sustained strain, purpose-led organisations working together can create capacity, coherence and resilience that no school can build alone The post Ensuring trusts are fit

Four key issues with MAT inspection for ministers to iron out

If trust inspection is to command confidence, the legislation underpinning it must be proportionate, precise and clearly aligned with its stated purpose The post Four key issues with

New AI platform aims to make sense of ‘myriad of data’

Open Education AI formally launches as a ‘sector-led non-profit’ and seeks to help schools bring together data from multiple apps and tools The post New AI platform aims

Schools face £47.5m free school meals expansion shortfall

Leaders say government’s plan to increase funding by 5p per meal goes ‘nowhere near far enough’ The post Schools face £47.5m free school meals expansion shortfall first appeared

Trusts’ finances improve, but leaders brace for more rainy days

Some chains boost reserves by up to 900%, but others remain in deficit as leaders warn of tough times ahead The post Trusts’ finances improve, but leaders brace

DfE schools boss gets new job as white paper looms

Director general for schools will continue to play a ‘pivotal role’ in reforms before moving to the Cabinet Office The post DfE schools boss gets new job as

More reception children not ‘school ready’, survey finds

The annual Kindred Squared survey also found regional gaps in school readiness, amid an increase in pupils not toilet trained The post More reception children not ‘school ready’,

Forget speed maths, schools need teachers who learn by degrees

There’s no quick fix to fill maths vacancies, but the degree apprenticeship will provide staff who can support pupils from day one, says Cosette Crisan The post Forget