All secondary schools will be expected to have “inclusion bases” where “pupils can access targeted support that bridges the ...

Bringing back ideas on areas including curriculum sequencing and literacy routines strengthens practice in the home school.

There is clearly a gulf between the ambition of the curriculum review committee led by Professor Becky Francis, and the ...

Suspensions are rising. More pupils are out of school. The SEND system is in crisis. And everyone is rightly calling for “inclusive schools”. But we avoid the elephant in the room – fragmentation – ...

Screens incrementally take up more of children’s time than they did a couple of decades ago, when they barely existed. One in ...

The DfE stressed it is “has learned a lot” from the first phase of the programme and is in a “much better place now in terms of [finding] matching organisations”. Advisers are also “more confident ...

One of the biggest academy trusts fell foul of a “historic fraud” over a number of years. Star Academies, which runs 36 schools, uncovered the “significant financial irregularity” last year.

The government has pledged write off 90 per cent of councils’ historic SEND deficits – estimated to be worth £5 billion. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said the deficits on ...

One of England’s first private finance initiative (PFI) schools struck a secret deal for taxpayers to cover a £1 million ...

Stephen Kingdom, the DfE’s deputy director of SEND in 2014, said the last reforms mainly reflected problems with the “school ...

Changes rolled out across 32 local authorities as part of a Tory-era SEND pilot have cut exclusions and kept more children in ...

The House of Lords is gearing up for a showdown with MPs over academy admissions and school phone bans, after peers passed a slew of Conservative amendments to the government’s landmark schools bill.