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School Exclusion: Commons Debate – 26/2/20

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| 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