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Wednesday

18th Oct 2023

Teachers told there is ‘no such thing as mild asthma’
A campaign targeting Scottish schools is advising teachers to call an ambulance if they are worried about a child with asthma ‘at any time’
Teachers told there is ‘no such thing as mild asthma’

Tuesday

17th Oct 2023

Gibb faces call to resign over £370m DfE funding error
Labour’s Barry Sheerman accuses the schools minister of overseeing the ‘demoralisation’ of the education sector across England
Gibb funding resign
MAT inspections carry ‘huge risks’, MPs told
MPs have begun an inquiry into Ofsted’s work with schools – here are six highlights from the first evidence session
Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts are 'inevitable', MPs have been told
SEND crisis ‘will spiral out of control’, MPs warn
Unless more funding is provided then the problems with SEND support will ‘quickly worsen’, cross-party MPs tell the chancellor ahead of his autumn mini-budget
SEND crisis ‘will spiral out of control’ without more cash, MPs warn

Monday

16th Oct 2023

Expert to scrutinise DfE over funding error
Accountant Peter Wyman will lead a formal review of the quality assurance process around the national funding formula
DfE funding scrutiny
Strikes by support staff to continue in Scotland
The biggest union representing Scottish council workers votes to reject the latest pay offer and says more school strikes will be announced in the coming days
Scottish support staff strike
Gilruth announces new Centre of Teaching Excellence
Announcing the plans, Scotland’s education secretary told the SNP conference she wants all ‘hardworking teachers’ to be ‘supported and empowered’
Education Secretary announces new centre of teaching excellence for Scotland

Friday

13th Oct 2023

DfE rejects union funding calls over £370m mistake
Schools minister Nick Gibb has written to union leaders after they called for a 2.7 per cent increase in funding to be restored to NFF allocations
School funding: Schools minister Nick Gibb has rejected union demands to restore a previously announced level of per-pupil funding
Gibb refuses unions’ demand over £370m school funding
The schools minister has rejected education unions’ call for the DfE to restore per-pupil funding to the amount announced in July
breaking news
NI heads deliver census returns by hand amid pay ‘gridlock’
The NAHT Northern Ireland school leaders’ union says it is ‘unprecedented’ that headteachers would take such action
Census delivery
Stop ‘tinkering’ over SEND school policy, DfE told
Senior government figures should make marginalised and vulnerable pupils their policy ‘starting point’, says headteachers’ leader Geoff Barton
Geoff Barton SEND
Demand for changes to stop ‘violence and disorder’ in schools
The ‘worrying decline in pupil behaviour’ in Scottish schools will be highlighted by a teaching union at the SNP annual conference in Aberdeen
Behaviour