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Calls for more support for schools after children’s commissioner report shows children are waiting ‘far too long’ for mental health treatment

As part of The Big Help Out happening later this year, ASCL’s Geoff Barton explains why he believes it is important schools find the time for volunteering efforts

Teaching unions voice fears about draft transgender guidance in their submissions to the government’s consultation

New Audit Office report on child poverty in Northern Ireland shows attainment gap at school starts early and remains wide in the years to come

When one headteacher noticed fewer children arriving in Reception with basic skills, she knew the school needed to take action

Three years after his appointment as the ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins tells the full story of the four months he spent trying to get the government to take education recovery seriously

More children are starting Reception not school-ready, creating added pressures for early years staff – and this is a symptom of a wider issues in society, says this MAT leader

Your essential education news this week includes the government recommending a lower teacher pay rise and schools being forced to share daily attendance data

FFT Education Datalab has issued a warning around the ‘additional pressure’ the increase could put on alternative provision 

Secondary schools in Scotland have had guidance teachers, who specialise in pastoral support, since the 1960s, and now primary leaders are pressing for a similar role in their sector. Emma Seith weighs up the arguments

More children ‘appear to be starting primary school without the basic life skills they need’, heads’ leader warns

Schools need to get ahead of the spread of online misogyny, says Margaret Mulholland, and teaching media literacy is part of that