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Schools still face an exceedingly difficult three years of budgets. Recent announcements equate to a 0.4% per annum increase in the core schools' budget over the spending review period. Pressures on funding pay rises and growing costs in areas e.g. SEND. #ThursdayThoughts

Yesterday the government published their welfare reform bill. These cuts could pull up to 400,000 more people into poverty ✂️ New JRF figures show that nearly 8 in 10 low-income working-age families in receipt of disability benefits went without essentials in May 2025. 1/2

“Simply put, the money the school receives hasn’t kept up with the rising cost of running the school!” swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/25252054.…

Today is Calderdale Against School Cuts 8th anniversary. Didn’t think we’d still be having to campaign for school funding in 2025!

Today, I have co-signed an amendment with over 100 of my colleagues that would stop the welfare reform proposals from becoming law.   I want to be clear this is not a decision I have taken lightly. In eight years as a councillor and almost a year as an MP, I have not broken the

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Ofsted’s decision to delay its consultation response until September means providers and their staff would be faced with a considerably shorter notice period if revised inspection arrangements are implemented in November. This would create wholly unacceptable pressures on

I thought the money was supposed to go into recruiting extra teachers?! 🧐

I sincerely hope that the Secretary of State heeds this advice. I cannot understand how we have ended up in this horrendous mess, given the constant levels of feedback asked for and provided. schoolsweek.co.uk/delay-new-ofst…

There will be a Westminster Hall debate on the future of music education on Thursday 3 July 2025 at 1:30pm. The debate will be led by Bambos Charalambous commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

This is an important point from JRF’s head of policy. There is a lot of concern about those who apply for PIP post 2026. This concern could be allayed with a genuine co production process of the new descriptors. We need this detail from government before Tuesday.

Tomorrow, 10am As we conclude our inquiry into solving the SEND crisis, we will be questioning Minister Catherine McKinnell MP on the support available to children and young people with special needs and disabilities, and on future reforms

Today Govt confirmed changes it will make to planned cuts to disability benefits. But Govt will still ask MPs to vote for large, arbitrary cuts to disabled people’s incomes that will increase poverty. The Bill should be opposed. Here’s why. 1/7

Govt admits remaining cuts will pull at least 150,000 people into poverty by 2029. But its new impact assessment is again misleading – it could be more like 250,000. (Same reason as why Govt’s previous poverty assessment understated the impact – see: x.com/IainKPorter/st…) 2/7

From next year, new claimants will be £’000s worse off than current claimants: 400,000 disabled people newly claiming PIP and 700,000 newly claiming UC-health will lose out by 2029, and this will increase in the following years. 3/7

Govt says it's about helping people into work, but can't even provide an employment impact estimate – that'll have to wait for OBR in autumn. So MPs still voting for cuts in the dark. This suggests only 3% of those facing original cuts would find work: resolutionfoundation.org/publications/n… 5/7

1 July 2025 - Solving the SEND Crisis - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament committees.parliament.uk/event/24620/fo…

Your are leading an inspectorate in the development of a new inspection Fwk. It was you who announced there would be a full term's notice. With that sort of response, I can understand why the Secretary of State was 'disappointed'. Inspection needs the trust of those it inspects.

I'm not sure I can be polite about this, so forgive me if my tone is terse. What the hell is Sir Martyn Oliver doing, framing the end of single-word judgements as a problem? He should know better. And if he doesn't, someone should tell him. theguardian.com/education/2025…

I thought you’d have to go a long way to find someone as tone deaf as Speilman, but it seems Ofsted has a particular knack in this area.