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  • 1 week ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Lydia Chantler-Hicks

    DfE extends neurodiversity support scheme, but with less funding Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m More from this theme Recent articles The government has extended a programme that boosts neurodiversity support in mainstream schools, but with less funding that its trial run.

  • 1 week ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Lydia Chantler-Hicks

    More from this theme Recent articles Putteridge High School, in Luton, is bucking the national trend of declining attendance for vulnerable pupils. How have they done it? Schools Week takes a look…Support pupils before they joinThe school has a four-phased approach, which begins before pupils even join.

  • 2 weeks ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Lydia Chantler-Hicks

    Teachers’ pay has been eroded far more sharply than other professions, the rest of the public sector and wages across the economy, new analysis shows. The School Teachers’ Review Body published its 35th report on Thursday, recommending a 4 per cent pay rise for the 2025-26 academic year. The DfE has accepted its advice, and will provide £615 million in funding, though this will only part-fund the rise. The body has also suggested some other ways the government could make teaching more competitive.

  • 2 weeks ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Lydia Chantler-Hicks

    Private schools have reduced their fees and increased bursaries after Labour removed their tax breaks, as data shows pupil numbers have dropped by 13,000 in a year, well above government estimates. The Independent Schools Council has published its annual census, its first since ministers began charging VAT on fees and making private schools pay business rates.

  • 2 weeks ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Lydia Chantler-Hicks

    More from this theme Recent articles The government believes schools can still spend their cash more efficiently, a senior civil servant has said, amid widespread concern that unfunded pay rises are pushing schools into the red. Permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood was joined by the Department for Education’s director general for schools, Juliet Chua, and director general for skills, Julia Kinniburgh, as they were questioned by MPs at a Public Accounts Committee meeting on Monday.

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