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School leaders’ network Schools North East’s manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools

New data shows an increase in the number of education, health and care plans and requests for assessments at a time when funding is being squeezed

Labour sets out plan to turn primary school classrooms into 3,300 new nurseries

Analysis suggests school-based counselling would provide an eight-fold financial benefit to the government

Government data shows a rise in the number of pupils at both state-funded and non-state-funded alternative provision settings in 2023-24

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission only gave a clean bill of health to seven of the 26 areas that received SEND area inspections last year