Newsletter: 2 Weeks in Education – 16th March 2020
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Highlight
School Admission: National Offer Day, Grammar Schools memorandum and 11-plus FOI tribunal
Content
| Schools: Admission, Exclusion and Governance |
| DfE | Ofsted | Ofqual | Westminster |
| Education Unions | News media |
| Schools: Admission, Exclusion and Governance
Twitter updates: #SchoolAdmission, #SchoolExclusion and #SchoolGovernance
- Coronavirus: NGA publishes information for governing boards
- OSA: Stockwell Primary School
admission variation decision
OSA: Kingswood Primary School
admission variation decision - Twenty-five post-primary schools to get extra places
“443 additional places to cope with an expected increase in demand in some areas” - Waltham Forest records highest rate of secured first choice secondary school places in London
- Parents fury as children in Thanet denied grammar school places despite passing the Kent Test
- Does profit matter more than parents understanding of school admissions?
Tribunal set to decide whether an 11-plus company’s commercial rights matter more than public transparency - Hansard: Written Answers — Department for Education: Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions (10 Mar 2020)
- Gangs, weed and crime: Impact of school exclusion
- Funding for charity tackling school exclusions
- Thurrock’s excluded teenagers given lessons aimed to steer away from gang violence
- How can link governors for SEND help children participate fully in school life?
- ‘If you’re creative, you can always avoid exclusions’
- Written Answers — Department for Education: School Exclusions Review (9 Sep 2019)
“not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation” - Clerking Matters: using outside individuals for panels
- Careers guidance for Governors and Trustees on National Careers Week 2020
- Parents claim victory after Langley Park school admissions proposals dropped
- ‘Our control over our children is being taken away’: South Leeds parents protest over school admissions ‘crisis’
- SEN pupils ‘not well’ served by in-year admissions
- Findings of Clerks pay research revealed
- Hansard: Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Admissions (5 Mar 2020)
- More of district’s pupils get first-choice secondary school places
- Council confirms school places for all children in Middlesbrough – after 2019 shortage
- Claims Leeds schools putting children in isolation for ‘wearing earrings’ and ‘eating sweets’
- SEND Conference
04 July 2020
09:30 – 16:00
Birmingham - Academy that removed pupils ‘without good reason’ branded ‘inadequate’
- Calling all Engineers – Take a Closer Look at School Governance
- NAHT comments on secondary school places offer day 2020
- Heads must ensure excluded pupils ‘stay in full-time education’
- Why might more parents be left disappointed on National Offer Day?
- Number of families denied first preference of school could rise
- Primary school places 2020: when admissions are announced, and what to do if you don’t get your first choice
- Over 95% Of Lancashire Students Successful In Gaining Preferred School Admission
- Disadvantaged pupils offered Birmingham grammar school places
- Designs released for a new ‘mega school’ with over 2,000 extra primary and secondary places and a sixth form
- What to do if you don’t get your first choice of secondary school?
- News round-up: 11-plus secrecy, social mobility and grammar schools, and new Sutton Trust admissions campaign
- Memorandum of understanding between DfE and Grammar School Heads Association
“The memorandum of understanding sets out the action that will be taken to widen access for disadvantaged pupils”
| DfE
- DfE: Early adopters of relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education
- DfE: Government advises schools and colleges to cancel overseas trips
- DfE: 16 to 18 multi-academy trust performance: 2019 revised
- DfE: A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2018 to 2019 (revised)
- DfE: Get support from your local computing hub
- DfE: COVID-19: guidance for educational settings – Updated: 12 March 2020
- DfE: National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2020 to 2021
- DfE: Multi-million government investment in the future of UK science
- DfE: NEET statistics annual brief: 2019
- DfE: Provide training for postgraduate teaching apprenticeships
- DfE: Recruit a postgraduate teacher apprentice: guidance for employers
- DfE: Education Secretary: We’re going on a discipline drive in schools
| Ofsted
- Local area SEND inspections: information for families
- Ofsted seeks views on proposals to revise post-inspection arrangements
- Conduct during Ofsted inspections
| Ofqual
- Ofqual: Updated statement on coronavirus
We’ve updated our statement on coronavirus and the summer 2020 exam series. - Exam system contingency plan: England, Wales and Northern Ireland
This joint contingency plan is in place to deal with any major disruption that may affect exam candidates. - External quality assurance of apprenticeships – an expanded role for Ofqual
| Westminster
- Committee to examine disparities for pupils with SEND
- Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill 2019-20
Published Friday, March 6, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers CBP-8813 - Apprenticeship Levy: Education Committee hosts roundtable on impact and possible reforms
- Special Educational Needs: support in England
Published Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers SN07020 - Education Committee membership agreed
| Education Unions
- Budget 2020
- NAHT comments on Budget 2020
- Coronavirus – we’ll be here for you
- Unions warn Treasury that capital spending cuts could increase asbestos risk in schools
- EPI on school funding
- Budget
- NAHT’s School Improvement Commission
- Sixth day of strike action in over 30 sixth form colleges
- International Women’s Day – celebrating women in the union
- Parents and educators join forces over need for increased school funding
- EPI on Technical Education
- NAHT comments EPI teacher shortages report
- EPI on teacher supply and disadvantages schools
- Coronavirus
- Rona Tutt’s SEND summary February 2020
- NASUWT calls for education ministers to extend Coronavirus guidance to include racist incidents
- New consultation on proposed changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance for September 2020
- School leaders take action for children with SEND ahead of budget
| News media
- Parents pulling children out of school over coronavirus fears
- Keeping schools open ‘best course of action’
- Warning of closure chaos for 40% of schools
- Coronavirus: Your complete planning guide for closures
- Reform or scrap GCSEs, say 86 per cent of heads
- Coronavirus: Heads call for clarity on exam disruption
- Coronavirus: science chief defends UK plan from criticism
- Chancellor pledges specialist maths school in every English region
- Millions wasted on ‘ghost’ teacher trainees
- Coronavirus: a guide for schools
- Why are twice as many boys as girls assessed for SEND?
- The one where the SEND system is a success: The astonishing views of the DfE
- SEND crisis ‘could bankrupt entire council’
- Coronavirus: Cancelled trips may cost schools millions
- Analysis: school funding | Budget 2020
- Parents and educators join forces over need for increased school funding
- Up to £123m spent on ‘ghost’ teacher trainees
- Scrap Sats and tables if virus spreads, say heads
- Budget 2020: Show us the money for SEND!
- Heads say Ofsted complaints plan doesn’t go far enough
- Free school dinners ‘led to fall in childhood obesity rates’
- Charities preparing to feed children if schools shut over coronavirus
- Reaching 130 million girls with no access to school
- Scrap primary school exams if coronavirus spreads, headteachers say
- Heads and councils press for extra £5.5bn for ‘struggling’ schools
- An international comparison of technical education funding systems: What can England learn from successful countries?
- Can a new Parliamentary Group keep the pressure on to #fixSEND?
- The Government’s proposals for SEND funding could be disastrous for vulnerable children
- Half of heads admit social segregation is a problem in state schools
- Health inequalities briefing
- Teacher shortages in England: analysis and pay options