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The 10 new attendance rules schools need to know about
Feb 29, 2024 · 6. Flag long-term sick leave with LAs. Schools will have to give councils the name and address of sick pupils who they believe will miss 15 consecutive or cumulative days. Schools will also be “expected to inform a pupil’s social worker and/or youth offending team worker if there are unexplained absences from school”.
SEND review: DfE finally publishes improvement plan - Schools Week
2 Mar 2023, 10:00. Ministers finally published their special educational needs and disabilities improvement plan today, three years after the SEND review was first launched. The government has pledged to go ahead with most major reforms. However a £70 million “change programme” – which will run for two to three years – will pilot ...
Pay scales for teachers in England from September 2022 - Schools …
Oct 14, 2022 · The new pay scales for teachers and school leaders for 2022-23 have been confirmed by the Department for Education.. It follows the announcement earlier this year of a 5 per cent increase for most teachers and leaders, and an 8.9 per cent increase in starting salaries.. While local authority-maintained schools are required to follow these pay scales, academies and free schools are allowed to ...
Unions accept support staff pay rise of up to 10.5% - Schools Week
3 Nov 2022, 10:02. More from this author. Unions have accepted a pay offer that will see school support staff, including teaching assistants, and other council workers paid an extra £1,925 this year. The offer means a 10.5 per cent hike for the lowest-paid and just over 4 per cent for higher earners covered by the agreement.
Labour curriculum and assessment review panel named - Schools …
Aug 30, 2024 · The 12-member panel appointed to review the curriculum and assessment for the new Labour government has been named.. Professor Becky Francis, the chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, was appointed in July to lead the review, pledged by Labour ahead of its victory in this year’s general election. Now Francis has named the remaining 11 members of the independent panel that ...
Teacher pay scales for 2020-21 revealed - Schools Week
Sep 23, 2020 · The new teacher and school leadership pay rates for 2020-21 have been confirmed by the Department for Education. In July, the DfE announced salaries for new teachers would rise by 5.5 per cent this year year, with the upper and lower boundaries of the pay ranges for all other teachers to rise by 2.75 per.
Mobile phones in schools guidance: What you need to know
Feb 19, 2024 · 1. Ban phones for the whole school day. Schools should “develop a mobile phone policy that prohibits the use of mobile phones and other smart technology with similar functionality to mobile phones”. This should be in place “throughout the school day, including during lessons, the time between lessons, breaktimes and lunchtime”.
Pay scales for teachers in England from September 2021 - Schools …
Oct 1, 2021 · The new teacher and school leadership pay scales for 2021-22 have been confirmed by the Department for Education. It follows the announcement at last year’s spending review of a pay freeze for all public sector workers earning more than £24,000 a year. Those earning less are supposed to get a pay rise of at least £250, though this applies ...
Support staff unions accept £1,925 pay deal - Schools Week
2 Nov 2023, 14:45. Unions representing school support staff across England have accepted a pay rise worth at least £1,925, putting to bed a long-running dispute. Unison and the GMB confirmed this week they had backed the offer from councils, worth 3.88 per cent for the highest earners and 9.42 per cent for those at the bottom of the pay scale.