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NASUWT survey reveals just 3% of teachers say pupils with special educational needs or disabilities always receive the support to which they are entitled

Almost a quarter of teachers say they skip meals in survey revealing ‘stark reality’ of how cost of living is affecting school staff, according to union

A ‘spreadsheet-first’ approach to funding will not chime with school leaders’ real-life experience

Counselling and Covid education recovery programmes in Northern Ireland also cancelled immediately, in move condemned as ‘outrageous’

This week’s essential news and analysis features all the reaction to the new teacher pay offer, including plans for more strikes, heads’ warnings about funding the increase and a plea from the education secretary

The DfE says schools will be given enough cash to cover its proposed teacher pay deal, but heads’ and teachers’ unions disagree. What do the numbers tell us?

DfE funding announcement comes after school buildings have been left ‘on the point of collapse’, warns heads’ union

Westminster committee calls for competitive teacher pay among raft of measures to widen diversity and inclusion in Stem education

This week’s essential news and analysis includes calls for Ofsted to halt inspections, new research uncovering the shocking scale of schools’ teacher recruitment problems and a warning of a behaviour ‘crisis’

State boarding schools to offer bed and breakfast and wraparound care amid ‘collision’ of issues as heads warn of ‘upwards pressure’ on fees

Fears that the latest wave of ‘safety valve’ deals, involving cost-cutting measures, could damage provision for the most vulnerable pupils

School and sector leaders question feasibility of Treasury’s new ambition for all primaries to offer wraparound care