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Children's Commissioner: 'Northern children face double whammy of economic disadvantage and ineffective schools'
Children growing up in Northern England face a double whammy of embedded economic disadvantage and ineffective schools, according to a new report from England’s Children’s
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Mar
Careers and Enterprise Company: 'North East schools 'instrumental' in the creation of the Careers Strategy'
Careers and Enterprise Company’s Chief Operating Officer Natalie Cramp told delegates at SCHOOLS NorthEast’s FutureReady18 conference that North East schools were
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Mar
North East Education Links w/c 25th March
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-mp-urges-parents-troubled-14463018 – Chronicle Live, Northumberland MP urges parents at troubled Berwick
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Mar
Damian Hinds non-committal on North East Opportunity Area at first Education Select Committee
The Secretary of State remained non-committal on the question of expanding Opportunity Areas to the North East in his first appearance before the Education Select Committee this
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Mar
Unauthorised absences in North East schools at an all-time high
New DfE statistics show unauthorised absence in England and the North East at an all-time high. In England, the rate of unauthorised pupil absence rose from 1.1% in 2015-16 to
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Mar
Academy sponsors taking on indebted schools will no longer face financial 'millstone'
The Department for Education is removing a ‘millstone’ of debt that has made academy trusts wary of sponsoring some schools in financial difficulties. It comes
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