The Key has launched a suite of new resources designed to help schools take control of workload challenges, increase efficiency and cut out unnecessary tasks.
The second chapter of the childhood obesity plan promotes a new national ambition for every primary school to adopt a daily ‘active mile’ initiative, such as the Daily Mile.
Twenty-five schools will be piloting improved measures to support children’s early development in language and vocabulary in the Reception year from September.
The Taking Teaching Further programme will pay for up to 150 professionals from sectors such as engineering and computing to retrain as further education teachers.
A new £8.8 million fund from the government will go towards helping to develop and evaluate technologies that will help schools, colleges and SMEs take control of their energy use through the use of smart meters.
A report from the Public Accounts Committee on Private Finance Initiative deals has blasted the Treasury, saying there are "no plans to assess the value for money of PFI".
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) lastest pay and responsibilities survey suggests that school business leaders' pay has increased by 9 per cent since 2016, but still falls behind the rest of the leadership team.
A new report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) recommends that the Government should allow high performing local authorities to take over schools from underperforming academy chains.
According to a survey by Charity In Kind Direct, primary school children are arriving for their lessons unwashed and in dirty clothes because their parents cannot afford to buy washing powder, soap or shampoo.