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MPs issue warning over academies governance

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

| CYP Now

The Department for Education must strengthen its governance of school academy trusts to prevent future damage to children's education and misuse of public money, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.

Half of councils 'unable to meet school place demand' within five years

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Thursday, August 31, 2017

| CYP Now

Half of councils across the country are at risk of being unable to meet rising demand for secondary school places within the next five years, local government leaders have warned.

Children's services leaders query Tory school places plans

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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

| CYP Now

The Association of Directors of Children's Services has raised concerns about plans set out by the Conservative Party to prevent councils from creating new school places in schools that have been rated less than "good".

MPs criticise government's free school expansion programme

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised the government's free schools programme, accusing ministers of failing to get to grips with the importance of providing school places where they are needed.

ADCS president calls for greater education role for local authorities

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Friday, April 7, 2017

| CYP Now

Councils need to bolster their role in shaping local education to ensure schools are supporting their areas' most vulnerable children, new Association of Directors of Children's Services president Alison Michalska has said.

Volunteer school mentor numbers top 1,300

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Monday, March 6, 2017

| CYP Now

More than 1,300 volunteer mentors are now working in schools across England as part of efforts to boost careers education, it has emerged.

LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils

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Friday, February 3, 2017

| CYP Now

Council leaders are calling for extra powers to stop academies refusing to take on "hard to place" children who have been excluded from another school.

Government shelves controversial Education Bill

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Thursday, October 27, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to compel underperforming schools to become academies and reduce the role councils have in the education system will be ditched, the government has confirmed.

Council leaders question school commissioners' improvement role

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

| CYP Now

Regional school commissioners (RSCs) will be unable to turn around struggling council-run schools, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

LGA chief: Give councils oversight of alternative education provision

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Councils must have powers to ensure specialist education provision for excluded pupils does not become a "dumping ground" if government school reforms go-ahead, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people's board has said.

DfE to focus academisation on 'struggling' schools

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

| CYP Now

The government's academies programme will focus on struggling schools, Education Secretary Justine Greening has said.

Charities urge more help in tackling pressures facing girls

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

| CYP Now

A "perfect storm" of life pressures is harming girls' mental wellbeing, and government and schools need to do more to help reduce them, two children's charities have said. ??

MPs call on Ofsted and DfE to tackle sexual harassment in schools

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Monday, September 12, 2016

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Ofsted and the Department for Education are failing to tackle the "shocking scale" of sexual harassment and violence in schools, MPs have warned.

Academies fail disadvantaged children, finds charity

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Thursday, July 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Education outcomes for disadvantaged children attending schools that are part of multi-academy trusts have deteriorated over the past three years, Sutton Trust analysis has found.

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.

Petitions opposing academy plans gain more than 200,000 signatures

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Two petitions opposing government plans to turn all schools into academies have both gained more than 100,000 signatures.

Academies 'discriminating against SEN pupils', MPs told

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Multi-academy trusts (MATs) are discriminating against children with special educational needs (SEN) by excluding disproportionate numbers, it has been claimed.

Government U-turns on plans to force schools to become academies

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Friday, May 6, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has dropped controversial plans to force all schools in England to become academies.

Analysis finds maintained schools 'outperform' academies

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Monday, April 25, 2016

| CYP Now

Council-maintained schools perform better than academies in Ofsted inspections, according to analysis by local government leaders.

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MPs issue warning over academies governance

Half of councils 'unable to meet school place demand' within five years

Children's services leaders query Tory school places plans

MPs criticise government's free school expansion programme

ADCS president calls for greater education role for local authorities

Volunteer school mentor numbers top 1,300

LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils

Government shelves controversial Education Bill

Council leaders question school commissioners' improvement role

LGA chief: Give councils oversight of alternative education provision

DfE to focus academisation on 'struggling' schools

Charities urge more help in tackling pressures facing girls

MPs call on Ofsted and DfE to tackle sexual harassment in schools

Academies fail disadvantaged children, finds charity

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

Petitions opposing academy plans gain more than 200,000 signatures

Academies 'discriminating against SEN pupils', MPs told

Government U-turns on plans to force schools to become academies

Analysis finds maintained schools 'outperform' academies

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