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Coalition guide calls on schools to only engage with parents of a gender-questioning child ‘with explicit consent’ of the young person

ASCL questions how the government can measure secondary school student progress without a baseline from primary

Government should review the EHCP system and consider reforms to make the SEND support system sustainable, says MPs’ report

Biggest teaching union plans to ‘agitate’ on teacher pay later this year

School leaders’ union warns unions will have no choice but to take industrial action if government fails to remedy ‘neglect and underinvestment’

Combined framework will set out how teachers should be trained in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support, oracy and mental health

Cross-bench MPs’ committee is calling on the watchdog to ‘rebuild trust’ and ‘make major changes to school inspections’

Government plan to impose minimum service levels during teacher strikes will ‘add to the increasing unpopularity of teaching’, unions warn

Still ‘work to do’ to define the purpose that MAT inspection would serve, the Confederation of School Trusts has said

Tes’ education news round-up this week includes more schools in deficit as a result of rising costs, new guidance on technology and schools’ support pact for Ofsted inspections

With measles cases rising, schools and nurseries have been given advice on what to do if they have a confirmed or suspected case

New data also shows that a third of disadvantaged pupils were persistently absent last term