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Free school meals: Calls grow for automatic enrolment and higher thresholds

Free School Meals

The school leaders suffering verbal abuse, threatening behaviour and physical violence from parents

Senior leadership

Schools in AI data protection and compliance warning

Artificial intelligence

The councils facing insolvency due to SEND high needs deficits

SEND

Auto-enrolment for free school meals ‘a no-brainer’

Free School Meals

Report card: Ofsted has ‘learned nothing’ from Ruth Perry’s death

Ofsted

National Audit Office issues stark warning over £13.8bn schools maintenance backlog

Facilities

SEN: A system in disarray, mired in red tape, and lacking funding

SEND

‘Death by a thousand cuts: We cannot go on like this’

School funding and finance

Children not in school registers draw closer as MPs debate Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Vulnerable children

The road to 6,500: Will pay snub and poor ITT recruitment jeopardise new teacher pledge?

Recruitment & Retention

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

Recruitment & Retention