Behaviour, eating habits, attainment, parental engagement – the positive impact of school breakfast clubs for children from low-income families has been spelt out in new research.
As the education secretary urges schools to prioritise face-to-face teaching, leaders warn that it will only take a small increase in staff absence to derail the beginning of the spring term.
Children who have been coerced and threatened into carrying or dealing drugs by county lines gangs must not be criminalised under new government plans, campaigners have warned.
Emotionally Based School Avoidance has become a big challenge for schools during the pandemic. This SecEd webinar offers ideas, tips and advice about how we can respond and engage with pupils who are...
After having battled with Covid-related staff absence for much of the term, schools have been hit by the news that the newly re-opened workforce fund will only cover a short period before Christmas.
“Last half-term there was a sense that government was simply sitting back and watching Covid numbers rise – we do not want to see that again this half-term.”
Ofsted is being urged to grant deferral requests from schools that find themselves in “crisis mode” due to the sharp increases in Covid-related absence of pupils and staff.
The widening disadvantage gap in GCSE outcomes between disadvantaged pupils and their peers shows just how much Covid-19 has hit our poorest students and how insufficient the government’s education...
Remember what happened a year ago? There is a palpable sense of déjà vu as teachers and school leaders issue increasing desperate pleas for government action to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 among...
Tens of thousands of children are at risk of either gang involvement or sexual exploitation at a time when school-based referrals to social services have fallen by a third.
