John Roberts
Deputy News Editor at Tes
Dad of two. Deputy news editor at @Tes. Darlo fan. [email protected] https://t.co/DEIV34E7AQ…
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1 week ago |
tes.com | John Roberts
The government has said it aims to produce a fully costed plan to improve the support system for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) by April next year. The Department for Education has also said it intends to announce a plan for dealing with council SEND deficits this summer, and to set out what inclusive education in schools should look like by the end of the year.
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1 week ago |
tes.com | John Roberts
Creating specialist places within mainstream schools is at the heart of the government’s drive to make the education system more inclusive for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). But there is concern that this focus on inclusion is insufficiently aligned with another government priority: early years education.
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1 week ago |
tes.com | John Roberts
Ofsted’s chief inspector will be urged to scrap the watchdog’s plans for new inspections by the head of a school leaders’ union today. Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders’ union, will tell its annual conference that the idea that Ofsted’s model is the only way to assess schools is “utter nonsense”. A consultation closed this week on Ofsted’s plans to move to a new report card system, which would see schools given one of five grades across at least eight evaluation areas.
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2 weeks ago |
tes.com | John Roberts
Almost nine in 10 secondary school teachers are developing their own curriculum resources for lesson planning, according to a new Department for Education survey. The survey also found that just 13 per cent of secondary school teachers used Oak National Academy resources, and this figure was even lower among primary and special-school teachers, at 11 per cent.
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2 weeks ago |
tes.com | John Roberts
The Department for Education has been warned that its definition of stuck schools is “flawed” and risks deterring academy trusts from taking on schools in need of improvement. The Confederation of School Trusts has raised concerns in a consultation response to DfE plans for Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) teams to intervene at schools deemed to be “stuck”.
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Ofsted has told its staff that its consultation response on new inspections will be later than planned but that it is not planning to delay its new inspections - according to internal email seen by @cerysturner7 https://t.co/doLvU4Qubr
After the Public Accounts Committee called for urgent action on SEND, the DfE's response has been published. It commits to a costed improvement plan within a year, and a way forward on council deficits by this summer. https://t.co/Rl0VaqmlX2
RT @jillberry102: "With increasing numbers of very young children with complex needs, including SEMH needs, nursery heads are said to be no…