warnefordconsulting.com/tim-warneford-… What will the impact be from the lowest ever number of #conditionimprovementfund awards in its 10 year history?Why we need specific funding for #fabricfirst outputs which in turn provide for better #decarbonisation options Tes Schools Week the School Business Forum

A Walk Across the Rooftops was released 40 years ago today. A fair excuse to dig out the interview with Paul Buchanan I did in 2006 for Kathleen Morgan at the very fine old Herald magazine. 'Silence is perfect - what are you going to put on it?' medium.com/@graeme_17133/…

If all of this is true @childrenscomm it’s not a matter of ‘rules being stretched’ but of criminal behaviour in which the police should be involved. What have we become under our current government? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688973…

The vast majority of school leaders are having to rely on community fundraising and parent donations to plug funding gaps for classroom essentials NAHT

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Wake up every day that would be a start,
I would not complain of my wounded heart.

25. Conversation With Ian Denison from Inscyte -Warneford Consulting We discuss the next ticking timebomb for academy trusts #PFI and the route to preparing your team to negotiate the end of contract. ⁦National Education Union⁩ ⁦ESFA⁩ ⁦Tes⁩ @school@ warnefordconsulting.com/25-a-conversat…

25. Conversation With Ian Denison from Inscyte -Warneford Consulting We discuss the next ticking timebomb for academy trusts #PFI and the route to preparing your team to negotiate the end of contract. ⁦National Education Union⁩ ⁦ESFA⁩ ⁦Tes⁩ @school@ warnefordconsulting.com/25-a-conversat…

Very decent modern version and evermore prescient for our ‘double talk’ era of alternative truths. audible.co.uk/pd/B0CRS2YMLQ?…

Warneford Consulting - A Conversation With Ian Denison from Inscyte youtu.be/5ln9I-xlsbc?si… via YouTube
A link to my #PFI podcast with Ian Denison. Any school seeking advice on preparing to negotiate their end of contract, please get in touch. Tes Schools Week National Education Union

Hi Mike, There’s this bloke who accessed the very highest levels of UK government & spent a lost weekend with a ‘former’ KGB spy currently sanctioned in Canada for being a member of Putin’s inner circle. He even put the ‘former’ spy’s son in the House of Lords! DM me for his name

This could be one of the defining images of the 2024 campaign ..

Exclusive: Net Capacity Assessment pilot found ‘discrepancies’ in school capacity numbers provided by local authorities and those found by government property assessors
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Schools with a confirmed case of RAAC will be eligible for inspections this summer term but can postpone them if they wish, Ofsted has announced
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Exclusive: Government property assessors found schools that had previously reported capacity shortfalls had room for 9,000 more pupils, documents seen by Tes reveal
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NEW: The govt's failure to commit to scrapping single word Ofsted judgements is “deeply disappointing”, says ASCL's Pepe Di’Iasio

His calls were echoed by Daniel Kebede, who said that the DfE “misses the opportunity' to make 'meaningful change”

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Another survey & the all too familiar set of buckets collecting rainwater in classrooms as a result of roof leaks. Why has this near universal experience become acceptable and why has the ⁦HM Treasury⁩ allowed the dire condition of our school estate to reach this nadir?⁦

Another survey & the all too familiar set of buckets collecting rainwater in classrooms as a result of roof leaks. Why has this near universal experience become acceptable and why has the ⁦HM Treasury⁩ allowed the dire condition of our school estate to reach this nadir?⁦

After MAT leaders told Jasmine Norden that they will need a teachers’ pay additional grant next year to fund a pay rise, the education secretary has said she will look at “how we can fund” a pay rise, but said a grant would be “hard to guarantee”

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👨‍⚖️ Lawyers for a school which has taken Ofsted to court have slammed its 'mystifying and frustrating refusal' to provide more detailed explanations for why it was rated ‘inadequate’
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Two new podcasts to be released this week. My analysis of the latest round of #conditionimprovementfund and me interviewing an expert on the risks schools face during and at the end of a #PFI contract. #developingthetrust National Education Union Schools Week Tes