ClerksAssociatesUKNewsletter: 2 Weeks in Education – 5th August 2019
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Highlight
School Exclusion: Knife crime and rise in exclusions
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
- OSA – Ellington Infant School
- REVEALED: How many Wiltshire pupils excluded for assaults
- Hansard: Secondary Education: Standards: Written question – HL17445
- DFE – School preference data collections: closed collections
- DFE – School preference data collections: guide to submitting data
- Inspiring Governance awarded Bronze Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
- School exclusions linked to knife crime, say MPs – About report
- Spike in school exclusions on Teesside blamed for national increase
- Exclusions rise by more than 50% at York schools
- School exclusions drop in Redbridge thanks to ‘significant’ efforts, report reveals
- Fewer bullies are being excluded from Lancashire’s schools
- Violence, racism, drugs and alcohol are blamed for rise in school exclusions
- OSA – Hinchley Wood School
- OSA – Bentley Wood High School
- OSA – The Priory Ruskin Academy
- School suspensions in Plymouth hit record high as attacks on teachers rise
- Record numbers of primary school pupils are being excluded
- We have strict admission rules – reader letter
- OSA – Albany Academy
- OSA – St Teresa’s Roman Catholic Primary School
- OSA – St Bede’s, Holy Family & St Augustine’s Roman Catholic Primary Schools
- Government releases statistics on school exclusions in England
- OSA – Hollybush Primary School
- DFE – Admission appeals for maintained primary and secondary schools in England: 2018 to 2019
- DFE – Permanent and fixed period exclusions in England 2017 to 2018
- DFE Stats – National Statistics: Permanent and fixed period exclusions in England 2017 to 2018
- Hansard: Written Answers — Department for Education: Pupil Exclusions: Secondary Education (24 Jul 2019)
- DFE – Statistics: exclusions
- DFE – Permanent and fixed period exclusions in England 2017 to 2018
- How we have supported those governing this year
- Number of pupils excluded from schools reaches highest point in decade
- Fixed-period school exclusions on the rise
- Huge leap in fixed term school exclusions
- Number of children suspended from school skyrockets
- Call for education experts to get in early to stop rising school exclusions in Milton Keynes
- Six things our next Prime Minister should do for children’s rights
1. Reform the law on school exclusions - NGA responds to teacher pay announcement
- State schools choose ‘posh’ uniforms to exclude poor pupils, says MP
- ‘Anything but inclusive’: No school places for three disabled sisters
| DfE
- DFE – Condition Improvement Fund
- DFE – Education Secretary meets apprentices on his first visit
- DFE – School preference data collections: closed collections
- DFE – School preference data collections: guide to submitting data
- DFE – Looked-after children in England, year ending 31 March 2019
- DFE – Understanding the educational background of young offenders: summary report
- DFE – Find, join or create a network for school business professionals
- DFE – Teaching schools hubs and system leadership: how you can get involved
- DFE – Education Sector Advisory Group minutes
- DFE – Get financial advice for schools
- DFE – Pre-opening stage: opening a maths school
- DFE – Data protection: privacy notice model documents
- DFE – Changes from previous school census
- DFE – Complete the school census
- DFE – Revised A level and other 16-18 results in England, 2018 to 2019 – Additional text
- DFE – School to school (S2S) data transfer system: guides
- DFE – School census autumn 2019 to summer 2020: school summary report
- DFE – Sex and relationship education
- DFE Stats – National Statistics: Permanent and fixed period exclusions in England 2017 to 2018
- DFE – Statistics: initial teacher training
- DFE – Statistics: exclusions
- DFE – Permanent and fixed period exclusions in England 2017 to 2018
- DFE – Postgraduate teaching apprenticeships: funding manual
- DFE – School Direct (salaried): funding manual
- DFE – Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs
- DFE – DfE consolidated annual report and accounts 2018 to 2019
- DFE – 16 to 18 accountability headline measures
- DFE – Society-wide mission to tackle early literacy and communication
- DFE – Further measures announced to boost the quality of post-16 qualifications
| Ofsted
- Ofsted – Transparency data: Ofsted pen portraits of Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMIs)
- Ofsted – Press release: Joint inspections focusing on children’s mental health
- Ofsted – Consultation outcome: Education inspection framework 2019: inspecting the substance of education
- Ofsted – Guidance: Joint targeted area inspections on the theme of children’s mental health
- Ofsted – News story: New Ofsted board members
- Ofsted – Press release: Teachers feel unsupported on classroom behaviour
- Ofsted – Correspondence: Steiner schools: Amanda Spielman writes to Damian Hinds July 2019
- Ofsted under fire in its own survey of teachers’ wellbeing
| Ofqual
- Ofqual – Press release: Qualifications regulators consult on changes to rules
- Ofqual – Guidance: Submitting data to Ofqual
| Westminster
- School uniform costs in England
Published Thursday, August 1, 2019 | Commons Briefing papers CBP-8414 - Physical education, physical activity and sport in schools
Published Friday, July 26, 2019 | Commons Briefing papers SN06836 - Special Educational Needs: support in England
Published Thursday, July 25, 2019 | Commons Briefing papers SN07020 - Online Safety Education
Published Friday, July 26, 2019 | POSTnotes POST-PN-0608 - Education Committee – Correspondence from the Secretary of State regarding additional information following Accountability hearing on 26 June 2019, 18 July 2019
- Education spending in the UK
Published Monday, July 22, 2019 | Commons Briefing papers SN01078
| Education Unions
- NASUWT comments on the Education Policy Institute’s Education in England: Annual Report 2019
- ASCL response to EPI report on disadvantage gap
- EPI on the education disadvantage gap
- Time for a sea change in education funding
- ASCL’s priorities for the new Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education
- ASCL comment on new Education Secretary
- Academies sector annual report and accounts
- New Education Secretary
- Boris Johnson’s education pledge
- Whiteman: Johnson education funding pledge is not even close
- NASUWT comments on Minister’s response to STRB Report
- Government has yet again failed to deal with pay in a timely manner
- ASCL comment on Boris Johnson
- ‘Nothing generous’ about government pay recommendation, says NAHT
- NAHT responds to Education Select Committee funding report
- 2019/2020 pay award announced for school leaders and teachers in England
- A bittersweet pay announcement
- ASCL comment on teachers’ pay announcement
| News media
- Pension and SEND costs could cut schools’ extra £4.6bn
- Are schools discriminating against pregnant teachers?
- Reporter’s take: What will Williamson do for schools?
- The Government should finally make ‘left behind’ children its priority
- Disadvantaged schools ‘will gain least from new Tory funding’
- Analysis: ‘Levelling up’- what it really means for school funding
- MPs call for dedicated police for violent schools
- Parents skip meals to ensure children are fed in summer holidays, MPs
- ‘Wake-up call’ for Boris Johnson on GCSE inequality
- Fear anyone placing schools at the heart of government
- Unconditional A level uni offers rise to 38% of pupils
- Attainment gap widens for disadvantaged GCSE pupils, study finds
- Education in England: Annual Report 2019
- Thousands of heads to march on Downing Street demanding more cash
- What are A-level performance tables?
- Parents launch court action over Christian school assemblies
- Under-fire council ‘failing to keep children safe’
- Six facts about new children’s minister
- ‘Significant weaknesses’ in DfE oversight of Sats
- Split on contextualised uni offers for poorer pupils
- Boris Johnson’s cabinet is most privately educated for generation
- Guaranteed university place for care leavers
- Boris Johnson makes Number 10 school funding pledge
- Parents increasingly opt for ‘aggressive’ behaviour towards teachers
- Government ‘pushed school’ to halt LGBT lessons
- School funding top priority for Williamson
- Schools face cutbacks to fund pay rise for teachers in England
- University applications could be after A-levels
- ‘Thousands’ of 14-year-olds carry knives
- Teacher pay deal will trigger redundancies
- Boris Johnson ‘must honour school funding pledge’ as PM
- London councils warn of £77m SEND funding shortfall
- Inspections culture drives teachers out
- Why mixed attainment teaching can benefit children and improve social justice
