Over £10 million of funding will go to programmes identified by the Education Endowment Foundation to help disadvantaged pupils catch up in the North of England, East Midlands & Humber, and West Midlands.
The National Education Union has said that the government needs to increase safety mitigations in schools and colleges, given the rise of the Omicron variant in the UK
Welsh secondary school children struggled to concentrate on schoolwork in the move to online learning during lockdown, negatively affecting their wellbeing, says a new study.
School inspections carried out since the start of term show that the overall grade profile for schools has improved in comparison with the period prior to the pandemic.
There is no move to remote teaching, with the DfE expecting schools to continue to provide face-to-face teaching. However, heads can consider if some staff work from home, such as office workers.
New polling from Teach First has found that only two per cent of teachers working in schools serving the most disadvantaged communities say all their pupils have adequate access to devices and internet to work from home.