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In a rare interview, the Ofsted team tasked with tackling illegal schools speaks about the horrors they have witnessed, the risks they face and how they’ve found taxpayers’ money funding some of the worst cases. https://buff.ly/LQo5YoP

Handing a peerage to former Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman would be 'inappropriate and insensitive', a group of school leaders has said

In a rare interview, the Ofsted team tasked with tackling illegal schools speaks about the horrors they have witnessed, the risks they face and how they’ve found taxpayers’ money funding some of the worst cases. https://buff.ly/LQo5YoP

Every year, around a third of GCSE pupils in England miss out on passes in English and maths. We spoke to some of the school that are quietly turning things around for the 'forgotten third'...

💰 Government cost-cutters recommended more than £400m of funding cuts last year, but schools have only been able to make a fraction of the advised savings

🚨 Exclusive: The chair of the Oracy Commission has said he is 'reassured' the issue will be 'woven into' the curriculum review's final report, after the interim document failed to mention it. Geoff Barton, the former leader of the leaders’ union ASCL and chair of last year’s commission, told an event this week he had spoken to review chair Professor Becky Francis on Monday. Labour announced in 2023 that the review would embed “digital, oracy and life skills” in children’s learning. But campaigners were surprised when the review’s interim report, published last week, did not mention it. https://buff.ly/I5JpoZJ

Leaders face having to make redundancies, curriculum squeezes and cuts to programmes supporting the poorest pupils