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Daily roundup: School discipline, child protection, and academy criticism

Friday, February 14, 2014

| CYP Now

Primary school behaviour getting worse; Rochdale Council takes steps to improve safeguarding; and Gove criticised over academy plans, all in the news today.

Number of exclusions for disruptive behaviour on rise amid overall fall

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Exclusions for persistent disruptive behaviour and bullying have increased, bucking an overall downward trend, analysis of latest statistics has revealed.

Daily roundup: Downhills school, Ofsted on adoption agencies and A-level results

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Thursday, August 16, 2012

| CYP Now

A bid to prevent a primary school becoming an academy fails, Ofsted unveils its new framework for adoption agency inspections and A-level pupils urged to consider college study, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Children playing sport, Labour moots return of EMA, and North-East young people have it the hardest

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Monday, October 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Concerns over children playing sport too early; Labour hints at reintroduction of student support; and the North East judged the worst place to be young in the UK, all in the news today.

Catch22 approved as academy sponsor

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth charity Catch22 is looking to build a national network of schools after being approved as an academy sponsor by the Department for Education.

Daily roundup: School league tables, apprenticeships, and serious case review apology

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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Plans for alternative school league tables announced, survey highlights popularity of apprenticeships, and Oxfordshire's Safeguarding Children Board issues serious case review apology, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

Education charity relaunches after entering administration

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

| CYP Now

A charity that works to raise achievement in schools has relaunched as a private company after going into administration.

Daily roundup: Pupil behaviour, children's homes and nursery inspections

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Friday, August 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Assaults by pupils on primary school teachers on the rise; new risk assessment guidance for children's homes published; and quarter of early years settings not inspected in last four years, all in the news today.

First free school run by ex-service personnel will operate zero-tolerance policy

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Friday, September 2, 2011

| CYP Now

A think-tank has proposed to start the first free school run entirely by former service men and women.

Daily roundup: Free schools, HIV education and housing benefit

Other

Friday, November 30, 2012

| CYP Now

Government moves to stop teaching of creationism in schools, calls to improve HIV education, and pressure applied to Chancellor over housing benefit plans, all in news roundup today

Tougher line on behaviour increases fears that pupil exclusions will rise

Other

Monday, September 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Changes that make it easier for teachers to deal with ill-discipline in schools could lead to a rise in the number of pupils, particularly in academies, that are permanently excluded, with devastating effects for their long-term prospects.

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

News

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

| CYP Now

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the government to give local authorities the power to tackle poorly performing academies and free schools.

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.

Daily roundup: School cuts, truancy and Ukip

Other

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Call for school spending ringfence to be lifted, £120 fines for parents of truants, and council makes Ukip foster couple apology, all in today's news roundup.

Government urged to establish school intervention guidelines

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Friday, April 27, 2012

| CYP Now

Government should introduce protocols setting out how local authorities can intervene in failing or underperforming schools, the body representing council chief executives has said.

Daily roundup: Children's heart surgery, social work in schools, and single-parent households

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

| CYP Now

Success for children's heart surgery campaign in Leeds, Lancashire to employ social workers in schools, and increasing numbers of households headed by single parents, all in today's news.

Charity slams academy exclusion practices

News

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Academies have been criticised for having an "alarmingly higher" rate of pupil exclusions than state schools and for failing to reinstate pupils on appeal.

Behaviour tsar warns of increase in most challenging pupils

News

Thursday, June 28, 2012

| CYP Now

The number of challenging school pupils who display "extreme behaviour" is increasing, the government's adviser on behaviour has said.

Schools to be responsible for excluded pupils' education

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Friday, March 18, 2016

| CYP Now

Local authorities will be stripped of their responsibility to commission alternative education provision for excluded pupils, under plans outlined by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

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Daily roundup: School discipline, child protection, and academy criticism

Number of exclusions for disruptive behaviour on rise amid overall fall

Daily roundup: Downhills school, Ofsted on adoption agencies and A-level results

Daily roundup: Children playing sport, Labour moots return of EMA, and North-East young people have it the hardest

Catch22 approved as academy sponsor

Daily roundup: School league tables, apprenticeships, and serious case review apology

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Education charity relaunches after entering administration

Daily roundup: Pupil behaviour, children's homes and nursery inspections

First free school run by ex-service personnel will operate zero-tolerance policy

Daily roundup: Free schools, HIV education and housing benefit

Tougher line on behaviour increases fears that pupil exclusions will rise

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

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

Daily roundup: School cuts, truancy and Ukip

Government urged to establish school intervention guidelines

Daily roundup: Children's heart surgery, social work in schools, and single-parent households

Charity slams academy exclusion practices

Behaviour tsar warns of increase in most challenging pupils

Schools to be responsible for excluded pupils' education

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