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Schools not up to the job of finding places for excluded pupils, warns academic
Most schools are not in the “best position” to find alternative provision for their excluded pupils, a leading academic has warned. David Berridge, a professor of child and
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Nov
Children attempting suicide in order to access mental health care
Anne Longfield says she visited a school that had experienced ‘five occasions of either attempted or threatened suicide in this year alone’ Pupils as young as 13 feel
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Nov
DfE planning to spend £10m on Reception baseline test
Department for Education says it wants to see an assessment of pupils’ ‘self-regulation’, alongside communication, literacy and maths The new baseline
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Nov
Social mobility… is school the only solution?
As I was prostrate in the bath the other night (which is where I do most of my thinking I must admit) and pontificating about the wonderment that are our children one question
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Nov
The Education Select Committee 14th November: A Round Up
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, appeared before MPs on the Education Select Committee on 14 November. Here’s a quick roundup of the key things she had
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Nov
Unions set out Five tests for next week's Budget
The country’s largest education union, the National Education Union, formed in September following a merger between the NUT and ATL, has set out five tests for the Chancellor in
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