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Autumn Budget: what is the government doing to improve outcomes for children with SEND?

Autumn Budget: what is the government doing to improve outcomes for children with SEND?

The government is making changes to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system. These changes aim to improve how children with SEND receive support.  It’s clear the SEND system is in dire need of reform. It is failing children and families at every turn, where outcomes for young people are nowhere near good enough.

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Education in the media: 23 June 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 23 June 2016 - Categories: Academies, Attainment gap, Equalities, Ofsted, Teacher Training
microphones and a blurred background of what looks like a press conference

...being made in this country and the heroes who have played such an important part in this.   With recent events in Orlando highlighting globally how far there still is...

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Gender identity in schools

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 22 June 2016 - Categories: Behaviour, Equalities, Myth busting, Transgender, Uniforms

There have been a number of misleading stories in the media recently about how schools address issues relating to gender identity and gender reassignment, and the Government’s role in this area.

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Education in the media: 21 June 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 21 June 2016 - Categories: Behaviour, School places
the hands of children on playground apparatus

...last July which places a legal duty on public sector organisations, to have 'due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.' The paper’s editorial points...

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Education in the media: 20 June 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 20 June 2016 - Categories: Curriculum, Equalities, Exams and qualifications, Literacy

Today’s education news review looks at an NUT survey about primary assessment and Ministerial commentary about Portsmouth Pride over the weekend.

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Responses to the Sunday Times: 19 June 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 19 June 2016 - Categories: Breaking news, Equalities, Independent schools, Term time holidays
Girl writing

...Sunday Times reports that Surrey County Council has hired a barrister in a term time holiday court case involving a mother who refused to pay a £60 fine. The piece...

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Caroline Dinenage: Pride in our progress

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 18 June 2016 - Categories: Equalities, Ministerial commentary

...weekend Ben will be joining over 15,000 same-sex couples who have come together to make a lasting commitment to share their lives together when he marries his partner, Francis. A...

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Education in the media: 17 June 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 17 June 2016 - Categories: Attainment gap, Independent schools, Ofsted, Term time holidays
Classroom

Today’s education news review includes coverage on term time holidays, the pupil premium and an Islamic independent school in Birmingham.

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Education in the media: 16 June 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 16 June 2016 - Categories: Academies, Literacy, Ofsted
Library

Today’s news review looks at coverage of Ofsted Chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw, and National Schools Commissioner, Sir David Carter's comments on Multi Academy Trusts and a survey by Oxford University Press about reading in schools.

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Education in the media: 15 June 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 15 June 2016 - Categories: Admissions, Childcare, School places

Today’s news review looks at coverage of our school offer statistics and a Public Accounts Committee report on our free childcare offer. School offer statistics Yesterday, Tuesday 14 June, we...

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Response to school applications and offers statistics

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 14 June 2016 - Categories: Admissions, Breaking news, School places

...in 2016/17. Almost 20,000 more secondary pupils got their first choice place in 2016/17 than in 2010/11. 20,000 more primary pupils got their first choice place than for 2014/15 –...

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