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Vague 6,500 recruitment target unlikely to be met without ‘new policy action’

Recruitment & Retention

Mainstream schools get £740m to 'create specialist facilities' for SEND students

School funding and finance

Parental disengagement hampering efforts to reduce unauthorised and persistent absence

Attendance

Youth club closures during austerity hit GCSE outcomes

Government policy

Budget 2024: A good starting point but much more will be needed

School funding and finance

Cost of school uniforms begins to fall

Poverty

DfE promises more timely announcements on teachers' pay

Pay and conditions

Ofsted reform: ‘We must avoid replacing one flawed system with another’

Ofsted

Number of students with SEN approaches 1.7 million

SEN

Inclusion in mainstream schools 'at the heart' of new-look DfE's work

Government policy

The pay issue is on her desk: Teaching unions call for confirmation of September pay rise

Government policy

New Parliament is ‘most representative’

Government policy