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SCHOOLS NorthEast can announce it has set up a series of termly events with Ofsted to support schools in the region to keep current on all information regarding inspections.

Jobs in Schools | North East, the region’s brand new recruitment portal created by schools for schools, is set to launch Monday 25 January 2016.

The regional education network, SCHOOLS NorthEast, backed Government plans to pilot better mental health provision for schoolchildren in Sunderland.

The Wearside city is one of 22 areas nationwide that will benefit from £3m investment by the Department for Education and NHS England to support the wellbeing of schoolchildren.

The North East education network, SCHOOLS NorthEast, today welcomed the chief of Ofsted’s calls for London Challenge-style education improvement in the North.

SCHOOLS NorthEast, which represents 1,250 schools across North East England, also backed his calls for greater efforts to tackle the growing teacher recruitment crisis.

Amanda Spielman, Chair of exam board regulator Ofqual, writes to SCHOOLS NorthEast after her visit to Newcastle. 

GOVERNMENT plans to level the playing field on school funding were today broadly welcomed by SCHOOLS NorthEast.

The Chancellor announced in his Autumn Statement today that he was introducing a National Funding Formula for schools that would replace the current Dedicated School Grants payment system which sees some London schools receiving double the amount per pupil than the North East.

SCHOOLS NorthEast would like to hear from head teachers and school leaders in our region: how are you faring with teaching staff recruitment? Which areas present the biggest challenges?

Please take a few minutes to fill in this survey and provide more insight into the recruitment situation in North East schools.

A shake-up of primary school testing was announced by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan today, with formal SAT exams for seven-year-olds set to make a comeback at Key Stage 1.

Last month, SCHOOLS NorthEast made a call for evidence to secondary schools, as we investigated Head Teachers’ concerns around exam boards. The response was fantastic and your stories were the subject of an evidence document which SCHOOLS NorthEast submitted to the Education Select Committee.

A full transcript of Sir Michael Wilshaw's keynote speech at the SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit 2015 is available here.

SCHOOLS NorthEast has announced plans to launch the North East Schools-led  Commission on Mental Health.

The initiative, to be launched next term, will bring together school leaders and experts in a range of statutory and support bodies to provide solutions to the growing problem of mental health issues affecting schoolchildren across the North East.

Good morning Ladies & Gentlemen,
It gives me enormous pleasure to be here today, addressing you at my first SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit - the 8th Summit in the organisation’s history.

This is a truly unique organisation that reaches to all four corners of the North East and engages across all sectors and school types. From Berwick to Saltburn, both primary and secondary and across state-maintained, acadamies, independents, UTCs and free schools, our driving purpose of being schools-led and for all schools, is one that endures.