Guidance

Updated government guidance covering academy trust responsibilities still has not been published, just weeks before term starts

Government accused of failing to ensure girls have equal access to football in PE lessons

The move has been broadly welcomed by heads, though the DfE has been urged to ensure there are enough providers available

Southwark Council has encouraged teachers to take a ‘trauma-informed’ approach to pupil behaviour, but Tom Bennett has criticised the policy

DfE tells heads that it is not advising schools to close during next week’s heatwave but suggests closing classrooms that get too hot

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