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• Inquiry ordered over England schools funding blunder

  06-10-2023 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Schools in England will receive less than they expected after an accounting error is uncovered.
  
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• England’s schools to be given less money after DfE admits bungling figures

  06-10-2023 20:51
  
  Amount schools receive for each pupil will be lower, forcing headteachers to redraw their budgets for 2024-25The Department for Education has admitted to bungling its funding figures for state schools in England next year, after revealing a £370m error in previous announcements by ministers.The DfE’s mistake means that mainstream primary and secondary schools will be given at least £50 less a pupil than originally forecast, forcing school leaders to redraw their budgets for 202
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Permanent Secretary NFF letter to the Education Select Committee

  06-10-2023 17:50 via gov.uk
  
  DfE Permanent Secretary Susan Acland-Hood writes to Robin Walker MP Chair of the ESC about an update to the national funding formula (NFF) for 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Children in UK will be living in long shadow of Covid for next two decades, inquiry told

  06-10-2023 16:12
  
  Anne Longfield, England’s former children’s commissioner, said ministers were indifferent to children during lockdownChildren will be living in the “long shadow” of the pandemic for the next two decades thanks to the government’s “indifference” to them during lockdown, England’s former children’s commissioner has told the Covid inquiry.The long-term, “devastating impact” the pandemic had on children’s mental and physical hea
  
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• Error to open pubs not schools, Covid inquiry told

  06-10-2023 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-children's commissioner in England says most senior officials did not put children first.
  
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• Managing asbestos in your school or college

  06-10-2023 14:28 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for school leaders, governors, local authorities and academy trusts about managing asbestos in schools and colleges.
  
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• Guidance: Strengthening chess in primary schools

  06-10-2023 14:02 via gov.uk
  
  Explains how primary schools can apply for funding to increase access to chess for pupils.
  
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• Tories insist private schools need tax breaks – but take it from an expert, they’re raking it in | Rebecca Boden

  06-10-2023 13:26
  
  Labour’s plan for VAT and business rates on these institutions is not only fair – it’s financially sensibleOne of Labour’s few firm policy commitments is to start charging VAT on Britain’s fee-paying schools, and full business rates on those in England as already happens in Scotland. This has generated a loud but often poorly informed debate as the Conservatives, ever-enthusiastic advocates for the independent sector, defend its tax breaks.The UK has about 2,600 pri
  
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• Guidance: Apply to become a families first for children pathfinder area

  06-10-2023 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  Support for local authorities applying to become a wave 2 area on the families first for children (FFC) pathfinder programme.
  
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• Guidance: Designated family judge trailblazer pilot: submit an application

  06-10-2023 11:08 via gov.uk
  
  Information for local authorities on how to submit an application to take part in the designated family judge trailblazer pilot.
  
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• Decision: FE Commissioner intervention: Croydon College 2023

  06-10-2023 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  FE Commissioner's intervention report summary on Croydon College, and the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education’s letter to the chair.
  
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• Disruptive behaviour in English schools worse since Covid, says outgoing Ofsted head

  06-10-2023 01:01
  
  Amanda Spielman says children are walking out of class, or registering but not attending lessonsBehaviour in schools in England has deteriorated since the pandemic, with pupils refusing to comply with rules, talking back to teachers and walking out of class mid-lesson, the head of Ofsted says.Suspensions for physical assault, threatening behaviour and verbal abuse have increased, with even primary schoolchildren being defiant and refusing to follow simple classroom instructions, such as to get o
  
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