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Single-sex spaces guidance doesn’t meet legal tests, warns union

Official guidance on single-sex spaces comes into force for schools today, but unions say it does not offer schools enough support and that it has arrived too late

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Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’, union warns

First minister responds after GMB union highlights 'dramatic escalation in violence and threatening behaviour' in Scottish schools

Unity Schools Partnership appoints CEO to replace Coulson

Dominic Norrish, previously COO of United Learning, will take up the role following Tim Coulson's departure to become director general of the DfE’s regions group

DfE seeks teachers for policy ‘sounding board’

The government is looking for primary and secondary teachers to join the latest cohort of its Teacher Reference Group

Union’s legal challenge of new Ofsted inspections rejected

The NAHT's bid for a judicial review over the new Ofsted framework was heard just a week before inspections are due to start

New guidance on little-known DfE capital funding budget

The government has provided information about acquiring funding through its Strategic School Improvement Capital Budget

Early years recruitment not boosted by DfE payments

A government pilot scheme offering £1,000 payments to attract early years staff resulted in fewer applicants than expected, a review shows

Multi-year pay recommendation: all you need to know

The government has proposed that teachers get a 6.5 per cent pay award over the next three years. 91¶¶Òõ sets out all the key information about the DfE's provisional offer

DfE urged to probe ‘persistent disruptive behaviour’ exclusions

Some pupils are being wrongly excluded from school because this vague 'catch-all' category is creating inconsistency in the system, warn PRU and AP leaders

SEND: Home-to-school transport overspend hits £415m

NAO calls on government to tackle 'unsustainable' costs as almost half of local authorities report annual overspends of 20 per cent or more on getting pupils to school

Wealthiest households fuel demand for delayed school starts

The affluence of the area in which a school is located is linked to the number of summer-born children who start Reception a year later, research shows

School referrals to social services hit new high

Schools made nearly 45,000 more social services referrals last year compared with a decade ago, DfE data shows

DfE: Teachers should get 6.5% pay rise over three years

The government has told the School Teachers’ Review Body how much teachers should receive up to 2029

Students reluctant to use AI for fear of cheating accusations

Only 55 per cent of young people feel their school is clear about appropriate use of AI, finds Scottish Qualifications Authority report

SSTA finds ‘alarming’ numbers of non-specialists taking classes

'Deepening crisis' of staff shortages also sees primary teachers frequently taking on roles in secondary schools, reveals survey by Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association

Menstruation should be in PE curriculum, say experts

Sport is an 'amazing place' to educate girls about their bodies but PE teachers may never have been taught anything about menstrual cycles, MPs are told

Restraint guidance for schools ‘took too long’, admits Gilruth

There is 'probably' an underreporting of incidents where seclusion or restraint is used in Scottish schools, says education secretary

MPs urge Labour to reverse IB funding cut

Minister defends the government's decision to withdraw funding for state schools to deliver the International Baccalaureate, saying that only '0.2 per cent of students' are taking it

Politics focus leads to ‘significant’ confidence boost for girls

University of Roehampton's pilot classroom programme aims to improve political knowledge and self-belief among working-class girls

Teachers seek 13% more pay to work in the most disadvantaged schools

Increasing salaries is the most effective way to improve teacher recruitment, according to EEF research looking at what schools can offer to attract staff

Nearly half a million pupils entitled to free school transport

Almost one in 10 children with SEND who receive funded home-to-school transport travel alone by taxi, new DfE data shows

Phillipson commits to remove RAAC from schools by 2029

Government announces new timeline for removing collapse-prone concrete from schools as MPs scrutinise its progress

Minister rejects call to allow term-time holidays

Schools minister Georgia Gould says the government will not allow pupils to miss 10 days of school without good reason

Sendcos back statutory mainstream support plan

Teacher Tapp data shows a higher level of support among Sendcos than other teachers for plans to create a new layer of learning support in mainstream schools

DfE misses key teacher pay review deadline

Teacher pay review process 'undermined' by the government's late submission of evidence, warn unions