Education Policy Briefings | Schools North East

Stakeholder
Briefings

We regularly conduct surveys and roundtables on the key issues and challenges our schools are facing in order to ensure that the voices of North East school leaders are heard as widely as possible.

Our Stakeholder Briefings are designed to share this feedback with influential figures within the education sector, to help them understand the detail of what our schools are facing.

Bitesize
Briefings

To keep our Partner Schools up-to-date on education policy developments and research, we send out one page briefings, summarising reports with key findings and the North East impact.

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Keep up to date on Schools North East in the press.

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Keep up to date with our letters in the educational setting.

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Bitesize Briefings are sent directly to Partner School members only. To access this critical information, now and in future, become a Partner School today. Click here to find out more.

Letter to the Secretary of State for Education and HMCI on external reference groups

Letter raising concern over the severe lack of representation from educational professionals in the North East—and those working in specialist and alternative provisions—on key advisory bodies within DfE and Ofsted.

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Submission to the Curriculum and Assessment Review

Schools North East's written submission Curriculum and Assessment Review's call for evidence.

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Roundtable with Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash

Schools North East holds regular roundtables with school leaders. This briefing covers the feedback from a roundtable on the 28th November 2024, with Jonathan Brash MP and school leaders from the Hartlepool constituency.

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Spending on special educational needs in England: something has to change

The SEND system in England has faced unprecedented pressure over the past decade. The IFS argue that without substantial reform it will likely become unmanageable for local authorities over the coming years.

Annual Report 2023/24: Education, Children’s Services, and Skills

Ofsted's annual report presents findings for the areas they inspect in early years childcare, schools, further education and skills and children's social care.

State of the Region Autumn 2024

Schools North East’s ‘State of the Region’ surveys intend to monitor the situation in schools across academic years. We ask the same set of core questions every term (as well as additional questions where relevant) to get a snapshot of the situation in North East schools, and to see how the situation develops across the year and compared to previous academic years.