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Nicole McCartney will take over at the 17-school trust in 2025-26, with Marc Jordan stepping down after 15 years in charge

Prime minister shares concern that some Reception pupils are ‘struggling to speak’, while headteachers say focus on early years is ‘one of the nearest things to a silver bullet’

Pay rise needed to achieve teacher recruitment target would cost government an extra £4.9bn by 2028, research warns

The government should expand its plan for a not-in-school register to ensure that vulnerable children don’t ‘fall through the cracks’, says EPI report

Recruitment difficulties in shortage subjects are not down to shrinking graduate numbers in related fields, finds research

The government needs to provide protected funding for breakfast clubs, ensure high-quality food standards and measure programme outcomes, says report