Education journo at @tes covering safeguarding, attendance and behaviour, assessment and EYFS. Views are my own. Tips: [email protected]
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Joined January 2025
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New: DfE spending on influencers has now eclipsed £700k since 2024, raising fresh questions over government priorities from shadow education secretary @LauraTrottMP. For Lib Dems’ @munirawilson, the figures are a “kick in the teeth” for teachers. @tes
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Amid concerns over KCSIE’s length and the sheer volume of guidance to adopt and comply with, changes made to safeguarding policies as late as September has led to patience ‘wearing thin’ in schools. @tes
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Violence-fixated pupils referred to Prevent are being sent back to schools because they don’t meet the programme’s criteria, @Rachel_deSouza tells the Southport Inquiry
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Scoop: The DfE’s permanent secretary is leaving her role.
Susan Acland-Hood joined the dept in 2020 after working at the Treasury & Home Office.
She will now be leaving the dept after six years at the helm.
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Exclusive: As part of its crackdown on mobile phone use in schools, the DfE said Ofsted would inspect schools' phone policies – but Tes analysis reveals that such policies are rarely mentioned in report cards
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Exclusive: A new service is being launched to give schools better access to teacher recruitment research, aiming to help them make better-informed decisions on recruitment, retention and CPD
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We’ve had a change in government since the big SEND reforms were announced in February – so will they go ahead as planned? @jasminenorden looks at what we know so far
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Excl: Offering free breakfast in schools may be linked to worsening child obesity, researchers say. @Uni_of_Essex' Institute for Social and Economic Research warns breakfast clubs rollout should not encourage 'unnecessary' eating. @tes
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Excl: Draft proposals for national curriculum and GCSE subjects delayed. DfE had previously committed to September consultation on draft progs of study and subject content - now ‘later in the year’. @tes
Story w @cerysturner7
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Education secretary @LucyMPowell says oracy will be given ‘equal status’ with reading and writing in the revised national curriculum
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“I’ve been teaching 25 years and low-level behaviour is so much worse than before - part of the problem is, if you address that behaviour, you get a reaction from the parent we never used to get”
Is gentle parenting to blame? @jasminenorden finds out.
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The NEU teaching union has called on Ofsted chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver to step aside after a survey suggested that almost all of its members do not have confidence in the watchdog’s leadership
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.@ASCL_UK passes a motion of no confidence in Ofsted’s leadership and in the watchdog's ability to address what the union describes as ‘the damage being done by the new inspection system’
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Is there a path to recovery for Ofsted? As the watchdog faces renewed calls for major reform, including from the education secretary, @JohnGRoberts examines what has gone wrong and the options now facing ministers and inspectors. @tes
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Excl: @ASCL_UK is preparing how it can take more "assertive action" against Ofsted at its exec meeting tomorrow.
Comes after increased pressure on Powell to reform the inspectorate - just a year after its renewed inspection framework was launched.
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Exclusive: The scope for negotiation over Ofsted has been ‘exhausted’, warns @ASCL_UK as it prepares for major talks on taking more ‘assertive action’
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Headteacher @andrewoneillHT, who was appointed as a DfE adviser under Bridget Phillipson, has announced he is bringing an end to his secondment
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Labour’s plan for technical education routes from age 14 shows that it is ‘blaming education’ for the Neet crisis, says Conservative shadow education secretary @LauraTrottMP
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A horrific experience for those involved and one not solved by an on-site phone ban.
A lack of government regulation and absent parental responsibility meaning kids are left vulnerable and schools picking up the pieces.
The emergence of nudification apps poses a safeguarding risk for schools: Tes head of safeguarding Shezleen Salaam sets out the steps staff should take if they encounter an incident involving fake sexual imagery of a student
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The emergence of nudification apps poses a safeguarding risk for schools: Tes head of safeguarding Shezleen Salaam sets out the steps staff should take if they encounter an incident involving fake sexual imagery of a student
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My take on what increasingly feels like an unrecoverable position for Ofsted, and how that might play out in the next weeks and months ⬇️
‘The challenge is not just that the sector has identified too many flaws in the new framework; it’s that Ofsted has not done enough to win the hearts of the sector’: @jon_severs explores dissatisfaction with the inspection regime in the latest Tes Daily ⬇️
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