More than 640,000 children in England were absent from school last week due to Covid, as the government announced its plans to sweep away the
Covid-related pupil absence in England has hit a new high since all students returned to school in March this year. Over 640,000 pupils in England
Families of children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) have been left “exhausted” and “despairing” by the pandemic which has affected their children disproportionately, according to
A “worrying” number of poorer school pupils will miss out on extra funding because of a change in the way support is allocated, unions say.
More than a third of kinship carers receive no financial support from their local authority, research by a charity has found. According to a survey of 2,000
The government’s education catch-up chief has resigned in protest over the prime minister’s scaled-down recovery plan, warning it “does not come close” to meeting the
The prime minister has promised schools in England there will be more money “coming down the track” after catch-up plans were labelled a “damp squib”.
A seven-year-old child with special educational needs is at boarding school hundreds of miles from home. Alfie Bonell, from near Loddiswell in south Devon, has
Ofsted has warned some pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are “not getting enough help” in mainstream schools — even when receiving specialist support. The