Education & Training news

• Shoe protest highlights 'forgotten' Send children

  03-11-2025 15:37 via bbc.com
  Shoes are left at council offices to highlight issues of children with special educational needs.
  
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• RISE attendance and behaviour hubs programme

  05-12-2025 16:16 via gov.uk
  Guidance for school leaders on the RISE attendance and behaviour hubs programme, its benefits and support, and how to join.
  
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• Over half a million children to be lifted out of poverty as government unveils historic child poverty strategy

  04-12-2025 23:30 via gov.uk
  Around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 – the biggest reduction in a single parliament since records began – as the Government launches its Child Poverty Strategy today (Friday 5 December).
  
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• Schools to save millions as Government launches agency profit cap

  04-12-2025 13:46 via gov.uk
  New programme launched to help schools tackle avoidable costs and agency staff mark-ups, so every penny is invested in young people.
  
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• More people training to teach

  04-12-2025 13:41 via gov.uk
  Trainee teacher numbers reach highest point since pandemic as government progresses towards its pledge to recruit and retain 6,500 additional teachers.
  
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• Strategic workforce planning for schools and trusts

  04-12-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  Support for schools and trusts to plan their workforce and recruit effectively.
  
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• Policy paper: Maximising value for pupils

  04-12-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  Sets out how government will work with schools and trusts to maximise value from resources, ensuring every pound delivers the best outcomes for pupils.
  
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• Maximising school and trust resources: managing financial and physical assets

  04-12-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  Information about the range of support available to schools and trusts to maintain, improve and use their financial and physical assets effectively.
  
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• Improve your school's and trust's digital and financial planning

  04-12-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  Information about the range of support available to schools and trusts to build capability, improve commercial expertise and meet digital standards.
  
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• Achieving better value when buying

  04-12-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  Information about the range of support available to schools and trusts to buy goods and services, get better value and be compliant with procurement regulations.
  
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• Statistics at DfE

  04-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  The Department for Education publishes official statistics on education and children.
  
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• Official Statistics: Initial teacher training: trainee number census 2025 to 2026

  04-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Provisional recruitment to initial teacher training (ITT) programmes in England in the academic year 2025 to 2026.
  
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• Guidance: Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies: guidance for local authorities

  04-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  How local authorities in England can prepare to run the Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies programme.
  
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• Access to early SEND support through Best Start Family Hubs

  03-12-2025 23:30 via gov.uk
  Best Start Family Hubs to act as one-stop-shop for parents with SEND professional and services to support speech and language development confirmed.
  
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• Which children to include: spring 2026

  03-12-2025 17:33 via gov.uk
  Find out which providers and children are in the scope for the early years census.
  
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• Special educational needs survey: guide to submitting data

  03-12-2025 15:07 via gov.uk
  How local authorities should report data for the annual special educational needs survey, commonly known as SEN2.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE update 3 December 2025

  03-12-2025 13:58 via gov.uk
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Cost of unregistered children's care homes a 'national scandal' - Ofsted

  02-12-2025 18:09 via bbc.com
  The Children's Homes Association says there is no clear national plan and government must 'fix the system'.
  
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• Guidance: Retention schedule for data processed by DfE

  02-12-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  Guidance to help users identify the retention periods for data processed by DfE.
  
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• Research: Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS): interim evaluation report

  02-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Interim findings from the evaluation of the PINS programme.
  
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• Government launches national conversation on SEND

  02-12-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  Government acts on commitment to put parents’ experiences at the heart of SEND reform through new public engagement campaign.
  
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• Transparency data: Early years stronger practice hubs

  01-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Information for early years practitioners about stronger practice hubs.
  
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• Apply to become an early years stronger practice hub

  01-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  How early years practitioners can apply to become a stronger practice hub.
  
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• 'We need to teach children about personal finance'

  01-12-2025 07:09 via bbc.com
  Headteachers in the south welcome moves to introduce financial literacy to the national curriculum.
  
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• Schools urged to trial four-day week to ease pressure on teachers in England and Wales

  01-12-2025 06:00
  Advocacy group tells education secretary ‘working smarter’ can protect staff wellbeing and help studentsCampaigners have urged the government to pilot four-day working weeks in schools in England and Wales saying it would boost teacher wellbeing, retention and recruitment rates.The 4 Day Week Foundation has written to the education secretary calling for greater autonomy for schools to pilot shorter working weeks, saying the government will not be able to meet its manifesto pledge of
  
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• The Guardian view on the Send crisis: Bridget Phillipson must be tough with the Treasury so children aren’t penalised | Editorial

  30-11-2025 18:48
  Tory special needs reforms upended council finances, but Labour’s plan to rebuild public provision won’t come cheap if it’s done properlyThe crisis over special educational needs and disabilities in England is not just a question of cash. Children and parents spend months and years battling for support to which the law entitles them, schools lack the funding to meet needs, and specialist provision is inadequate. An adversarial system shunts families towards tribunals that counc
  
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• Cornish language to get same protected status as Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic

  30-11-2025 17:30
  Kernewek submitted by government for part III status under European charter for regional or minority languagesThe Cornish language is due to be given the same status as Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic after the government submitted it for greater protections under a European charter.Kernewek, spoken as a first language by 563 people according to the last census, has been recommended by the government for part III status under the European charter for regional or minority languages, the highest
  
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• 'Predatory' head teacher struck off after exposing himself in school

  28-11-2025 15:40 via bbc.com
  James 'Jamie' Richards left several staff traumatised and was described as "predatory" by a panel.
  
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• Parents threatened and blamed by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care

  28-11-2025 06:54 via bbc.com
  Families seeking help for their children’s complex needs describe threats of police action against them.
  
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• Ban harmful content from social media instead of us, say Australian teens

  27-11-2025 22:53 via bbc.com
  From 10 December, social media firms must ensure Australians aged under 16 cannot have accounts.
  
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