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NSPCC: Safeguarding and child protection self-assessment tool

11 September 2022

NSPCC have created a free self-assessment tool to help schools or organisations audit current safeguarding and child protection arrangements. The tool will also help to identify areas for development and support you in…

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Reducing exclusions checklist

10 September 2022

Beacon School Support have produced a free checklist for ensuring every avenue of support has been explored before resorting to permanent exclusion. It has been written to help leaders make…

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The Body Coach app: free access for teachers in the UK

9 September 2022

Joe Wicks is providing free 3 months access to his Body Coach App for all UK teachers. "Teachers work so hard and do an incredible job every day. They are…

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Beginner’s Guide to Anti-Racism

9 September 2022

Tapestry have collaborated with Liz Pemberton to create a free Beginner's Guide to Anti-Racism. The aim was to produce a straightforward, consumable document that could start necessary conversations about racism…

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Research shows impact on GCSE results for those pupils who did not meet ELGs

8 September 2022

New research from Exeter University and UCL suggested that many of the pupils who fail to achieve standard GCSE passes in English and maths were already falling behind by age…

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Guidance: Primary school accountability

7 September 2022

The Department for Education has published the ‘Primary school accountability in 2022: technical guide’, which replaces the existing documents. The newly published guidance includes further information about Key Stage 2…

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New content expected on school websites

7 September 2022

The Department for Education has updated their lists of what schools and must or should publish on their websites in the 2022 to 2023 academic year. This includes new sections…

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Online Safety Policy and Practice Report 2022

6 September 2022

The Schools in England Online Safety Policy and Practice report for 2022 looks at the latest strengths and weaknesses seen in online safety over the past year for schools in England.…

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Ofsted English curriculum video released

5 September 2022

Ofsted has released their latest curriculum webinar. In this video, Kirsty Godfrey, Senior HMI and Specialist Adviser, talks about the English curriculum, with a particular emphasis on catch-up. The key…

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Key stage 1 SATs will be scrapped, STA confirms

4 September 2022

At the end of July 2022, school leaders were informed, via email, that the end of KS1 assessments would no longer be compulsory from the 2023/24 academic year. The STA…

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Ofsted: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on schools

3 September 2022

Over the past year, Ofsted has produced a series of reports in their education recovery series, where they have explored how schools, prisons, early years providers and further education and…

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Child protection course for school governors

3 September 2022

NSPCC Learning has released an updated version of the online safeguarding training for school governors. The course is aimed at governors of schools and trustees of academies. Training is provided…

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