Newsletter: 2 Weeks in Education – 17th February 2020
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School Exclusion: Commons Debate – 26/2/20
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
- Dozens of schools bid for our £1m fund to cut exclusions
- Permanent exclusion rate sees sharp rise in Southwark
- Six grammar schools given go-ahead to expand
However 19 other grammar schools failed in their bids for government expansion money - New Catholic school gets go-ahead despite protest
- Warwickshire County Council criticised over schools admissions
- School spaces for physically disabled pupils saved following public backlash
- Onwards and upwards: the rise of executive pay
- Advice insight: Using Chair’s action
- Free school given go-ahead despite 1,600 spare places
- School Exclusions
Published Tuesday, February 11, 2020 | Commons Debate packs CDP-2020-0032
On 26 February from 9.30-11.00 am there will be a debate in Westminster Hall on school exclusions. - Thames Valley school board eyes groundbreaking policy to turf threatening students
- School for excluded kids in Solihull could close to make way for autistic free school
- Is Scotland’s school exclusion policy the one the UK should follow?
Scotland has all but wiped out permanent exclusions from its schools, according to official figures - Pupil sent home from school over afro hair wins £8,500 payout
- Number of places at Bishopthorpe Infant School set to be reduced
- Leeds Council plans to build 550 homes and new primary school in Otley
- First primary state boarding school set to open
- OSA: The Gorse Academy Trust
admission referral decision - OSA: The Henrietta Barnett School
admission objection decision - ‘Off-rolling happens in Scotland, too’
- Autism and ADHD ‘not being spotted’ as exclusions rise
- Children with special educational needs excluded three times more than others, data shows
- School exclusions: ‘I had low hopes at my old school’
- Pupil places to be cut at three Coventry schools
- Hansard: School Exclusions Review:Written question – 8386
- Inside story of new governor’s fight to halt school exclusion
- The shockinginly high numbers of black children being excluded from Croydon’s schools
- Leeds schools slammed for excluding children for ‘wrong haircut or shoes’
- Police commissioner calls on Home Secretary to act on school exclusions to tackle county lines gangs
- Stop excluding children in care, says review > https://www.carereview.scot/
- How governing boards can develop and nurture an inclusive environment to support children’s mental health
- Leaders and schools share and explore education ethics at annual summit
- Study reveals how MAT chairs spend and manage their time
| DfE
- DfE: Music education: call for evidence
- DfE: Sponsor an academy
- DfE: Claim a payment for teaching maths or physics
- DfE: Attitudes to education and children’s services
- DfE: Parents urged to look beyond apprenticeship misconceptions
- DfE: EdTech Demonstrator schools and colleges programme
- DfE: Capital funding for free schools, UTCs and studio schools
- DfE: Apprenticeship and and traineeships: March 2020
- DfE: T Levels capital fund
- DfE: T Level providers to benefit from £110 million boost
- DfE: Labour market and skills projections: 2017 to 2027
- DfE: NEET statistics annual brief: 2019
- DfE: Drivers of centres’ choice for vocational and technical qualifications
- DfE: Subject knowledge enhancement (SKE): course directory
| Ofsted
- Ofsted – a change for the better?
- Has your school been inspected since September 2019? Share your experiences
- Ofsted launches point-in-time surveys
- NEU backs #PauseOfsted campaign
- Ofsted’s new inspection framework: three steps for school leaders
- Twelve years without Ofsted – and still outstanding
- Ofsted: Unseen evil: Sex abuse in families going under the radar, say inspectorates
– About report - Our 2020 Ofsted survey is now open
- Outstanding primary schools fail Ofsted inspections under sudden rule switch
| Ofqual
- Ofqual – Our governance
- Ofqual analytics and interactive apps
- Ofqual: Internal assessment in existing national technical and vocational qualifications
| Westminster
- Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill 2019-20
Published Thursday, February 6, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers CBP-8813 - Constituency casework: schools in England
Published Tuesday, February 4, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers SN05396 - Bullying in UK Schools
Published Tuesday, February 4, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers CBP-8812 - The Pupil Premium
Published Monday, February 3, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers SN06700
| Education Unions
- New national air quality guidance
- Leadership Focus February 2020
- Safer Internet Day – School leaders warn families not to ‘leave children to their own devices’
- New MET Police guidance for schools and colleges
- Professionals Online Safety Helpline
- NAHT comments on child poverty in response to new report by Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- NAHT comments on importance of reading in response to BookTrust survey
- Pupil premium rates increased for the first time in five years
The increase is in line with inflation for this year at 1.8%. - Huge rise in number of school-based counsellors over past three years
| News media
- Oxford Brookes doing worse than University of Oxford on state school admissions
- The Youth Violence Commission’s final report will be launched on Thursday 26 March 2020
- Universities still not giving enough places to state school pupils
- Plug pulled on 5,000 post-GCSE qualifications
- Schools in England hold half-term Sats classes for pupils as young as six
- Schools targeted with inquiry into use of restraint
- Revealed: Figures showing online dangers facing pupils
- UK rated among world’s worst for child online safety
- Nine schools in East Sussex testing staff or pupils for coronavirus
- Pupils draft their own climate bill as anxiety grows over lack of guidance for schools
- School flooded with abusive messages over LGBT+ rainbow crossing
- “Show me the evidence” Part 2: The questions parents should ask about SEND assessment and provision
- ‘Lollipop men and women down by more than 2,000’
- Raise school leaving age to ‘improve prospects’
- Schools trial body cameras to aid safety and monitor behaviour
- Secondary school tables: How did your school do?
- Secondary school league tables explained
- Pupil seeks court action over school transgender policy
- Gove’s GCSEs widened disadvantage gap, data suggests
- Boost retention payments for Stem teachers, DfE urged
- ‘Grindingly slow’ progress on disadvantaged uni access
- Girl with SEND misses five terms waiting for EHC plan
- Attainment gap widens between disadvantaged pupils and their peers
- Michael Rosen condemns UK education system’s ‘fear of laughter’
- Third of MATs raise £150k+ pay despite DfE probe
- Government far off target for GCSE pupils studying academic subjects
- Nearly half of sixth form students feel ‘pressure’ to go to university
- Not one woman’s name included in ‘GCSE science national curriculum’
- “Show me the evidence” Part 1: Why parents are pivotal to driving evidence-based practice in SEND
- Half of UK 10-year-olds own a smartphone
- Number of schools buying in counsellors for children almost doubles