Thursday
Schools ‘won’t lose out over pupil premium change’
Minister says individual schools will not lose funding ‘as a direct consequence’ of pupil premium census date change
1 in 3 heads using pupil premium to plug funding gaps
The Covid pandemic has led to more schools diverting funds aimed at the poorest pupils, finds charity
Wednesday
School uniform cost cutting bill to become law tomorrow
New legislation seeks to keep branded items to a minimum to reduce burden of uniform costs on parents
Stop ‘tinkering’ and fix Covid crisis gap, say heads
Government ‘obsessed’ with MAT expansion, and education secretary’s approach to behaviour is ‘thin gruel’, says ASCL
Tuesday
Heads back call for breakfast club expansion
Union pledges support for ‘expanded’ breakfast clubs after Labour calls for them to provide ‘additional learning time’
Exclusive: Half of catch-up tutoring yet to start
National tutoring scheme says schools have ‘flexibility’ to delay tuition – but heads criticise ‘overcomplicated’ system
Schools to share £1.8bn for building improvements
Funding for school maintenance and repairs rises by 20 per cent – but this follows cuts to wider school capital budget
Monday
Gavin Williamson attacks school funding ‘moans’
But heads say the government is ‘giving with one hand and taking away with the other’ over pupil premium changes
Schools can bid for summer holiday catch-up fund
Secondary schools urged to bid for a share of £200m to run summer schools this year to tackle Covid disruption
Thursday
Catch-up tsar: Don’t ‘force’ more hours on teachers
Sir Kevan Collins also says he would ‘never advocate’ increasing teaching time without raising pay
Exclusive: Quarter of Covid fund is recycled DfE cash
Using repurposed money to address Covid crisis is ‘completely inadequate to the scale of the challenge’, warns union
