Super interesting idea for awareness courses - would they work?

Edition 403, done and dusted Scoop: Ofsted won’t publish full consultation findings Investigation: armed forces now flag SEND failures Lydia Chantler-Hicks hunts for education policy at Reform conference Jack Dyson digs into new RISE expansion Plus: can schools handle voting at 16?

The government hopes lowering the voting age to 16 will support ‘democratic education in schools’ - but might it just exacerbate current problems? I spoke with experts and teachers for their thoughts schoolsweek.co.uk/vote-at-16-are…

Exclusive: a former top DfE civil servant has taken a role at Newton Europe, which led the controversial government contract that aimed to cut new education, health and care plans by 20 per cent schoolsweek.co.uk/ex-dfe-civil-s…

🗣️ Language hubs showed “early signs of positive impacts” in improving schools delivery of language teaching, with the potential to improve pupil confidence, an interim report has found after the government cut funding for the scheme schoolsweek.co.uk/language-hubs-…

🌱 As climate expectations from the government increase on schools, what lessons can be learned from a trust that has prioritised sustainability for seven years? Ruth Lucas visits Northern Star Academies Trust in Bradford to find out... schoolsweek.co.uk/school-spotlig…

Exclusive: Councils testing government SEND reforms will pilot a 'local offer' as part of the 'reformulated' Change Programme schoolsweek.co.uk/councils-to-te…

Exclusive: JCQ is asking schools to 'trial and exhaust' supervised rest breaks in exams as they are 'often more effective' than 25% extra time schoolsweek.co.uk/exams-try-rest…

Exclusive: Two thirds of schools appear to have no sustainability leads, which the government said needed to be nominated by this month schoolsweek.co.uk/climate-change…

Shadow education secretary Laura Trott has written to Ofsted calling for the watchdog to fail schools on safeguarding if pupils are caught using smartphones in lessons schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-should-…

Lots of disagreements over children leafleting/protesting/campaigning at Labour Conference last week. I spoke to lawyers to see what rules had been broken... schoolsweek.co.uk/national-educa…

A big day for the Covid inquiry with Gavin Williamson giving evidence - including a very angry text he sent Boris Johnson over decisions made without him... schoolsweek.co.uk/williamson-tex…

The Schools Week team is at Confederation of School Trusts's annual conference over the next two days Follow this thread for updates from the event's opening speeches 🧵 #CSTConf25

More from yesterday's Covid Inquiry - DfE Permanent Secretary Susan Acland-Hood says her team would've been able to administer mass covid testing in schools in January 2021, rather than closing them again schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-was-confid…

We are live at Confederation of School Trusts where Bridget Phillipson is giving her Keynote speech. Follow live for updates...

The former Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave evidence at the Covid Inquiry today, where a WhatsApp message revealed he considered sacking education secretary Gavin Williamson over the summer exams fiasco schoolsweek.co.uk/johnson-consid…

Breaking: The schools white paper will be delayed until 'early in the new year', government has announced today, as ministers take more time to draw up controversial SEND reforms schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-white-…