Guidance

Your roundup of Tes’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including Ofsted inspection changes, an attack on teaching assistants and new behaviour guidance

Behaviour guidance on the controversial use of so-called ‘isolation booths’ calls on schools to keep records of ‘removals’

A cross-party committee of MPs has written to education secretary James Cleverly to ask how the Schools White Paper will work in “conjunction” with the SEND review

Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Select Committee, sets out how educational outcomes for children in the care system must be addressed 

Figures show rise in primary school parents ‘unlikely’ to have their child vaccinated against Covid, as UK enters fifth wave

Schools will no longer be colour coded depending on their performance – but inspection is to become more frequent

Exclusive: Discussions will begin next week over how the new national arm’s-length curriculum body will operate

Exclusive: Allow schools and trusts involved in Early Career Framework delivery to build on first-year learning, says leader

The proportion of secondary school applicants who received an offer from their first preference school increased to 83.3 per cent, while the figure was 92.2 per cent at primary level

Lawyers Lorna Davis and Claire Fowler explain planned changes in legislation and recently published guidance on supporting transgender students in schools

Planned new government standards would mean fines have to be considered if a pupil has 10 unauthorised absences in a term – including being late

Finding ‘common interests’ between tutors and pupils could improve attendance at NTP tutoring sessions, say researchers