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15 April 2024
The DfE has updated guidance relating to data protection in schools. This is relevant to maintained and academy schools. The section on handling other information rights requests has been updated…
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Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) is designed to help schools and colleges identify concerns early, develop the right relationships with other professionals, and support them to put appropriate processes and…
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A new international financial reporting standard (IFRS 16 leases) has been introduced. The impact of the IFRS 16 leases on maintained and academy schools is set out below. Maintained schools…
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Scholarship funding for autumn 2024 Funding for autumn 2024 will target those teachers and leaders who work in the most challenging schools or educational settings, serving more disadvantaged communities. Scholarship…
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The DfE has clarified how the eligibility of ECTs and mentors is checked. If a school uses a training provider or accredited materials, the DfE will make sure that everyone…
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The Better Hiring Institute has created a toolkit for schools to support their recruitment processes. The toolkit was produced in collaboration with Reed, Jobs Aware, the DBS and the Safer…
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More than eight in 10 school leaders are seeing an increase in vexatious complaints, creating an “unmanageable” drain on resources, a Tes investigation reveals. The problem is being driven by social media “frenzy”, overstretched public…
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In the 2022 white paper ‘Opportunity for all: strong schools with great teachers for your child’, the government set out an expectation that all state-funded mainstream schools should deliver a…
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Join The Chartered College of Teaching for a free webinar as they bring together women who are leaders in the field of education to hear their stories of inclusion, leadership,…
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This guidance will help schools and academy trusts understand how to respond to: parents’ and carers’ requests that the school their child attends considers establishing wraparound or holiday childcare childcare…
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New mobile phones in schools guidance issued by the DfE on 19th February 2024 backs headteachers in prohibiting the use of mobile phones throughout the school day, including at break times. …
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The Department for Education (DfE) has produced guidance to help schools offer new or expanded wraparound childcare, with support from the national wraparound childcare programme. This non-statutory guidance explains the role…
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