Cerys Turner
News reporter @tes, covering Ofsted, primary, early years & edtech. Former @cityjournalism, ✍🏻 The Times, Big Issue, Metro (pronounced Keh-Riss)
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4 days ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
Schools setting up internal alternative provision lack guidance on what works, risking it becoming a “holding pen”, a new report warns. School staff feel that internal alternative provision (AP) can be viewed as a “last-chance saloon” that merely replicates the exclusions they aim to prevent, according to research by charity The Difference.
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4 days ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
Education unions may encourage school leader members to leave their role as Ofsted inspectors if the watchdog does not introduce major changes to its proposed inspection system. The Association of School and College Leaders and the NAHT school leaders’ union have written to the education secretary today to inform her of further steps they will take should their concerns over school report cards not be addressed.
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5 days ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
Giving less than one term’s notice of plans for a new system of Ofsted inspections will place “wholly unacceptable pressure” on schools and teachers, unions warned the education secretary today. In a letter to Bridget Phillipson, seen by Tes, education unions repeat their calls to delay the introduction of school inspection report cards to the beginning of the 2026-27 academic year “at the earliest”.
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1 week ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
Education ministers were today grilled on the timeline for reform of the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system, the government’s workforce pledges and pupil screen time. Facing education questions in the House of Commons, education secretary Bridget Phillipson did not rule out the government restricting education, health and care plans (EHCPs) to just special schools, when asked about this by the opposition.
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2 weeks ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner |Emma Seith
A group of private schools, pupils and parents have lost High Court challenge against the introduction of VAT on school fees. A case was brought to the court by seven families, who argued that this government policy is “incompatible” with both the Human Rights Act and the right to education guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. The case included children and families at faith schools, and families who have sent children with special educational needs to a private school.
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RT @jon_severs: Well done @cerysturner7 ensuring the wider public understand the cost pressures in schools on @itvnews https://t.co/49X4Ug…
A further blow to Ofsted’s school card plans this morning: Education leaders, teachers, former HMI & Prof Julia Waters, sister of headteacher Ruth Perry, have written to the SoS to urge her to delay the proposals, or risk “further, preventable deaths”. https://t.co/SdV7qyHQMZ
Strong words from @NAHTnews on Ofsted’s report cards proposals: The union warned that the plans risk the “health and wellbeing of school leaders” and raised concerns that no impact assessment on teacher wellbeing, workload & health has been made. https://t.co/jNedgNW6xB