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School estate management standards

1 May 2025

The DfE has published the ‘School estate management standards’, setting out the practices and processes required to effectively manage the school estate. This non-statutory guidance from the DfE aims to…

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Teacher recruitment and retention in England data dashboard

5 March 2025

England’s school system faces a substantial and growing challenge of ensuring there are sufficient numbers of teachers employed in schools. The nature of the teacher supply challenge is multi-faceted: the…

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Half of councils warn of insolvency over special needs spending

27 February 2025

A survey conducted by the Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed that 53% of councils expect to be unable to balance their budgets in 2026/27, rising to 63% in 2027/28…

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DfE published SEN guidance for governing boards

1 February 2025

The DfE has produced guidance to help school governing boards understand their role and responsibilities when it comes to supporting children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) and…

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The Governance of DEIB in Schools/Trusts/ Colleges Virtual Conference ’25

18 January 2025

DiverseEd believe that every school/ college/ trust needs a strategic plan for establishing, embedding and sustaining their DEIB strategy. We need the strategic leaders of our schools, our colleges and…

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Energy efficiency – How to improve it at your school

17 January 2025

As well as benefiting the environment, making energy efficiency improvements to your school has the added advantage of bringing significant financial savings. This enables you to redirect funds to other…

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DfE recommends 2.8% teacher pay rise for 2025-26

12 December 2024

The DfE’s evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body states that a 2.8 per cent award for 2025-26 would “maintain the competitiveness of teachers’ pay despite the challenging financial backdrop the government…

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Governor Twilights: pupil premium strategy

8 December 2024

Free governor twilight sessions from Staffordshire research school your governors may be interested in: holding leadership teams to account for the effectiveness of their pupil premium strategy.  All sessions are…

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Climate action support for schools

5 November 2024

Is your school looking for support to become zero carbon? Let’s Go Zero is the national campaign uniting teachers, pupils, parents and their schools as they all work together to…

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School-Based Nursery Capital Grant

31 October 2024

The School-Based Nursery Capital Grant is a one-time grant available for eligible state-funded primary-phase schools. Schools can bid for up to £150,000 of funding to use solely for capital expenditure,…

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How the budget will impact schools

30 October 2024

In today's budget, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an increase to the core school's budget which is a real terms growth of 1.8 per cent. Below are 5…

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Improve your school open day

18 October 2024

First impressions are hugely important. Get these wrong and parents won’t bother attending your school open day. An unfriendly response to enquiries will be enough to put people off before…

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