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• Schools across England close as teachers vow to continue strikes

  27-04-2023 18:32
  
  NEU members highlight pay erosion as well as high workload and crumbling school facilitiesThousands of schools across England were fully or partially closed on Wednesday as teachers vowed to continue taking strike action until the government resumed talks over pay and working conditions.The national strike by members of the National Education Union, the largest teachers’ union in England, was the fourth since February, with a fifth national strike scheduled for next Tuesday. Continue readi
  
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• Exam grades are going ‘back to normal’. But for our stressed-out teenagers, normal is a long way off | Gaby Hinsliff

  27-04-2023 17:44
  
  As with Covid-19, so with the cost of living crisis: it’s the most vulnerable children who will pay the highest priceThe countdown clock is ticking, the panicky last-minute revision reaching feverish levels. No parent currently tiptoeing around snappy, stressed teenagers will need reminding that exam season now looms in England and Wales, or that it’s already under way in Scotland. But if nerves are jangling more than usual this year, both in staff rooms and at home, that’s har
  
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• England's teachers' strike causes more disruption

  27-04-2023 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Teachers are on picket lines in the National Education Union's fourth national strike day in England.
  
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• Guidance: Summer born children: advice for admission authorities

  27-04-2023 16:11 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for local authorities and school admission authorities on admissions for children born in the summer.
  
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• Guidance: Summer born children: advice for parents

  27-04-2023 16:10 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for parents on requesting a delayed school start for children born in the summer.
  
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• Teachers’ strikes: NEU accuses government of refusing to negotiate

  27-04-2023 14:27
  
  Union co-head apologises to parents on fifth day of England and Northern Ireland strikes, saying it is ‘not what members want’Teaching unions have accused the government of stonewalling and refusing to enter into negotiations, as teachers in England and Northern Ireland started a fifth day of strikes on Thursday.Dr Mary Bousted, a co-head of the National Education Union, apologised to parents facing another day with their children not in school, but said teachers were striking for th
  
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• Transparency data: Implementing supported accommodation reforms: section 31 grant determination letter

  27-04-2023 11:30 via gov.uk
  
  Grant determination letter confirming allocation of £14.55 million to local authorities in April 2023.
  
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• Official Statistics: Postgraduate initial teacher training targets: 2023 to 2024

  27-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Annual target for the number of trainees to start postgraduate initial teacher training in the 2023 to 2024 academic year, in England, by subject.
  
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• National Statistics: Level 2 and 3 attainment by young people aged 16 to 25 in 2022

  27-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Information on the attainment of young people aged 16 to 25 in 2022, based on matched administrative data.
  
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