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Most teachers to pay less into their pension under new plans

DfE launches consultation on cutting employee contribution rates for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme across most salary bands

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Biggest rise in EHCPs since pandemic

New data shows an increase in the number of education, health and care plans and requests for assessments at a time when funding is being squeezed

Funding crisis ‘will increase class sizes’ in most schools

One head in an ASCL poll warns that the only thing left to cut is teaching staff after 'paring everything back to the bone'

Most bullying in secondary ‘linked to sexuality or gender’

School leaders believe their staff need 'increased confidence' in handling bullying incidents, according to a DfE-funded report

Key policy of rooting music tuition in education at risk, warns union

Council urged to abandon plans to put its instrumental music service in an arm’s-length body, amid fears the plans could have Scotland-wide ramifications

Revealed: The most popular education policies for voters

Analysis shows strong support for hiring more teachers and increasing apprenticeships but a negative response to dropping single-word Ofsted judgements

Glasgow teachers to take industrial action over job cuts

EIS members in Glasgow vote heavily in favour of taking in favour of action that could result in strikes

Conservatives’ education policies: all you need to know

The Conservative Party pledges to make guidance on banning mobile phones statutory and to protect 'day-to-day' per pupil spending on schools

Real-terms cuts to schools in Wales laid bare by new data

Education bodies and unions collectively call for all political parties to commit to a plan to invest the funding needed to eradicate all school cuts

Liberal Democrats’ education policies: all you need to know

Lib Dems pledge to make teacher pay fully funded and independent, and to cut the amount schools pay towards education, health and care plans

Schools under ‘severe strain’, ASCL warns party leaders

Spending money on managing SEND deficits rather than meeting children's needs is a situation 'close to madness', says the union

Labour: Breakfast clubs plan ‘could cut half a million days of absence’

Labour sets out plan to turn primary school classrooms into 3,300 new nurseries

School counselling ‘would deliver £1.9bn boost to country’

Analysis suggests school-based counselling would provide an eight-fold financial benefit to the government

Most special schools have ‘less funding than in 2010’

Special schools have suffered a £419 million real-terms cut in spending power over 14 years, unions warn

EIS: School violence reduction ‘wishful thinking’ without extra money

Using class-contact reduction for ‘collegiate time’ is another ‘absolute red line’, says union chief Andrea Bradley, who also calls on Scottish government to ‘come clean’ on teacher numbers

Weekly round-up: Teacher pay and school complaints

This week’s essential education news includes a 91¶¶Òõ investigation into the number of academies paying teachers above the national rate and a warning about schools facing rising complaints

Ofsted warned over inspection target impact on wellbeing

Inspectors are feeling 'pressured' by Ofsted's target to inspect all schools by next summer, says union

Investigation: How trusts use teacher pay freedoms

Which academies deviate from the national teacher pay scale, and is this affecting other schools' ability to recruit?

Which MATs pay teachers above the national rate?

Does your school pay teachers more than the nationally set scale? Check our interactive map to find out

Government criticised for ‘silence’ over Glasgow teacher job cuts

Glasgow teachers are warning that if job cuts go ahead in the city other councils will follow suit

Sharp rise in pupils in alternative provision amid crisis warnings

Government data shows a rise in the number of pupils at both state-funded and non-state-funded alternative provision settings in 2023-24

Teacher vacancies leap by 20% in a year

Heads' leaders say the new figures are 'stark evidence of the recruitment and retention crisis'

EIS president blasts lack of action on education reform

After 'consultation upon consultation' the Scottish government has still not given a timeline on major reforms, Paula McEwan tells union's annual gathering

Energy spend per pupil highest in North East schools

School spending per pupil on learning resources and catering grew significantly in England over the past couple of years as schools face cost rises, finds analysis

Next government ‘faces persistent education inequalities’

Incoming ministers will need to address the long shadow of problems facing schools caused by the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, IFS warns