Friday
Weekly round-up: KCSIE, SEND and the attendance crisis
This week’s essential education news and analysis includes why KCSIE is letting pupils and teachers down, MPs calling for a ‘major’ mental health plan to tackle the attendance crisis, plus schools see a rise in Covid absences
91¶¶Òõ News podcast: The school attendance crisis
Join the 91¶¶Òõ News team as they discuss the scale of the school attendance problem and whether government efforts to tackle it will have an impact
Conservative Party conference: what can teachers expect?
All eyes will be on Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives next week following a turbulent start to the term for schools, including the RAAC crisis and absence concerns
Thursday
EBacc: DfE plans to ‘incentivise full entry’
Department will consult on performance measure changes planned from 2024
Flexible working toolkit: what schools need to know
A raft of new documents for schools to help introduce flexible working have been released -here’s what you need to know
Wales to set up school attendance taskforce
Percentage of secondary pupils persistently absent in Wales trebled last year, compared with before the Covid pandemic
Starmer defends private school fee VAT plan
The Labour leader insists that his decision to remove tax exemptions from private schools is not an ‘attack’ on the sector
Wednesday
Warning over Covid absence rise in schools
An increase in Covid-19 cases this autumn is leading to a rise in pupil and staff absence, a headteachers’ leader has warned
SLF criticised as viewers shut out of Gilruth Q&A
The Scottish Learning Festival has been rebranded SLF Conversations, but a conversation with Jenny Gilruth was abruptly shut down for online viewers this afternoon
Use absence figures to ‘make case’ for SEND cash, DfE told
Commons Education Select Committee chair calls for DfE to make attendance a clear focus in funding bids
