A survey of head teachers reveals a worsening picture of schools funding, with growing staff cuts along with reductions in spending for a range of activities in schools.
Labour, unsurprisingly, is crowing about a paper published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies claiming that Tony Blair’s Sure Start centres improved the GCSE results of children from low-income families a decade after attending the centres. Children who lived within 2.5 km of a Sure Start Centre before 5, it finds, went on to score
Schools will have to wait until May to find out their pupil premium funding allocations for the 2024-25 financial year, the Department for Education has said
Jo Parkes looks at the impact on settings from the increase in children requiring more support from staff, and how they are navigating the best ways to help parents.