ClerksAssociatesUKNewsletter: 2 Weeks in Education – 2nd March 2020
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School Admission and Exclusion: OSA annual report, new research, briefing papers and Westminster debates
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
- Hansard: School Exclusions — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (26 Feb 2020)
26 speeches - Hansard: School Admissions Process — [Ms Karen Buck in the Chair]
13 speeches - DfE behaviour expert ran ‘unlawful’ exclusions
- Zero-tolerance schools should be ‘unreservedly celebrated’, says MP
- Support to continue for Sheffield children at risk of truanting or being excluded from schools
- Government ‘worryingly relaxed’ about school exclusions
- Intervene over off-rolling, children’s tsar tells DfE
- School admissions: Don’t just rearrange the deckchairs
- NAHT comments on Sutton Trust report into school admissions > Report
- Report: School Places: A Fair Choice? > Download pdf
- Report: Fairer School Admissions > Download pdf
- School admissions: how to make the system fairer for all
- Parents and teachers think school admissions needs to be fairer
- Most secondary heads open to making admissions fairer
- Education leaders back NGA calls for visible governance
- Visible governance in schools campaign announced by NGA
- Vulnerable pupils are being excluded from schools and it’s not always legal
The Marmot Review 10 Years On presented evidence on the rise of school exclusions
> Review - Black pupils are being wrongly excluded over their hair. I’m trying to end this discrimination
- Grammar school scoring is wrong, says father – and hopes finally to prove it
After eight years a tribunal could force changes to selection - The importance of trust members: are they or are they not?
- Reform National Leaders of Education, DfE advised
- Victoria Wells, Trustee; Finding our way through the Educational Moral Maze
- School places in England: applications, allocations and appeals
“updated in advance of a Westminster Hall debate on 27 February 2020”
Published Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers SN07147 - Video & Audio of debate in Westminster Hall on school exclusions
> Briefing - School preference data collections 2020: guide
- School preference data collections: guide to submitting data
- Henry Fawcett Primary School
admission variation decision - Two-fifths of admission complaints about grammars
- OSA: Annual report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator for England
“progress made by admission authorities in England in complying fully with the School Admissions Code, and achieving fair access to schools” - Ethical Leadership in Education: “Accountability is not enough; we have to do good”
- Becoming a governor at a SEND school
- School that sent pupil home over afro hair paid for equality award
- Glenbrook Primary School
admission variation decision - Anger as son denied place in SEN school
- Off-rolling in English schools
Published Friday, February 21, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers CBP-8444 - School preference data collections 2020: XML generator
- School preference data collections: guide to submitting data
- Kings Avenue Primary School
admission variation decision - Fenstanton Primary School
request to vary the admission arrangements - Stockwell Primary School
admission variation decision - Our Lady of Peace Catholic Primary School
admission variation decision - DfE: Secondary school preferences by school type: 2019
Ad hoc statistics on parents’ first preferences for different types of schools - Could grammar schools still make a comeback?
- Demand for grammars ‘50% more than places available’
- MAT executive pay: a gradual change of attitude?
- Employers across the country sign-up to become School Governor Champions
- Exclude and you’re not ‘outstanding’, Ofsted told heads
| DfE
- DfE: Behaviour and discipline in schools: guide for governing bodies
- DfE: Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions 2020
- DfE: New push to improve outcomes for vulnerable children
- DfE: Dedicated support in schools for children who have experienced adversity and trauma
- DfE: Department for Education ministerial portfolios confirmed
- DfE: GCSE physical education
- DfE: Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics 2018 to 2019
- DfE: Selective Schools Expansion Fund: successful applications, 2018 to 2019
- DfE: Free schools that opened in 2018: impact assessments
- DfE: Further crackdown on illegal schools
| Ofsted
- All heads urged to join anti-Ofsted ‘quiet revolution’
- Ofsted: Local area SEND inspections: information for families
- Ofsted casts a dark shadow over schools
- Ofsted set to change how it handles school complaints
- Podcast: How Ofsted has managed to ‘offend everybody’
- Jewish schools group on collision course with Ofsted
- Chancellor can’t ignore Ofsted on school funding
- Ofsted: Commentary on school funding
Amanda Spielman provides a commentary on what we found in our research into school funding and its impact on education. - Ofsted: Making the cut: how schools respond when they are under financial pressure
- Ofsted chief: funding cuts forcing schools to narrow curriculum
- NAHT comments on Ofsted funding report
- Ofsted’s annual report is a wake-up call for Government
- If Ofsted told us to jump off a cliff, would we?
- Ofsted: Schools ‘not balancing their books’
- In full: Spielman’s controversial school funding blog
- ‘Brutal’ Ofsted leaves teachers ‘shattered’
- State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information
| Ofqual
| Westminster
- Children in School with Special Educational Needs
Published Thursday, February 27, 2020 | Lords Library notes LLN-2020-0068 - Educational Opportunities for Children and Young People from Working-class Backgrounds
Published Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | Lords Library notes LLN-2020-0066 - 16-19 education funding in England since 2010
Published Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers SN07019 - School inspections in England: Ofsted
Published Tuesday, February 18, 2020 | Commons Briefing papers SN07091 - Online safety education
Published Tuesday, February 18, 2020 | POSTnotes POST-PN-0608
| Education Unions
- Baseline assessment to become statutory in September
- Trans-inclusive education conference: Liverpool
- Preparing for statutory relationships, sex and health education: updated programme of study for PSHE education (key stages 1-5)
- Join the eco-schools programme and engage your school and wider community in environmental projects
- Fundamental changes needed to school transformation plans
- Baseline research launched
- Sixth form college strike rally
- NAHT life members’ newsletter – Spring 2020
- Pay survey results 2020
- The Department for Education releases a new financial insights tool for academy trusts
- Chris Quigley’s top three transformative tips for curriculum design
- LGBTI teachers continuing to face prejudice and abuse in the workplace
- BME teachers facing more covert racism, conference hears
- Letter to the Prime Minister
- Unions criticise government’s pay proposals
- NAHT comments on the importance of CPD
- New report: ‘Ofsted’s new inspection framework a change for the better?’
- | News media
- Understanding school revenue expenditure | Part 5: Expenditure on teaching assistants
- Greta Thunberg in Bristol: schools shut as students join climate strike
- Headteachers say advice on coronavirus has been ‘inconsistent’
- We need to take behaviour seriously at a national level
- DfE seeks 20 schools to lead on behaviour
- Investigation: Independent schools hoarding millions
- COVID-19: guidance for educational settings
Guidance for schools and other educational settings in providing advice about the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 - Schools not being advised to shut over coronavirus, says PHE
- Schools taskforce starts work to end gender stereotypes
- Children schooled at home up 13% despite fears over lack of regulation
- 7 ways to handle confrontations with parents
- Plans to shut schools and curb travel in UK if coronavirus spreads
- Two-thirds of teachers considered quitting over pay
- Whitehall has created a narrative of ‘wasteful schools’
- Home education up 13% in year, says watchdog
- GCSE exams could be sat online in future
- Funding crisis ‘forcing teachers into 70 hour weeks’
- Call for new independent SEND inspections of schools
- Driving pupils to be perfect is damaging mental health
- Child protection groups condemn Andrew Bolt for saying convicted St Kevin’s groomer ‘hit on’ victim
- New children’s minister Vicky Ford MUST sign off on continued Ofsted/CQC SEND inspections
- Was Ofsted v DfE turf war a setback for schools?
- Coronavirus: 10 things schools need to know
- How teachers’ low expectations stop poor pupils going to university
- Top universities told to widen access to places
- Coronavirus: UK headteachers told to stay calm and keep schools open
