Policy

The government is considering restricting or banning children’s use of social media. How might this impact schools?

After co-hosting a series of public engagement events on upcoming SEND reforms, the Council for Disabled Children sets out the key messages for the government

House of Lords vote follows the government’s announcement that Ofsted will inspect schools on whether students are using their phones

Banning under-16s from social media would not remove the problem – and it could deny schools their role in empowering young people to protect themselves from danger, writes Simon Lightman

The government will also launch skills pathways for teachers and support staff to help them develop digital, data and tech skills, education secretary says

With SEND spending set to more than double, the government must try to deliver a sustainable system without squeezing mainstream schools’ funding, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

The number of children not in education across the globe is rising – and failure to invest in schooling now puts the future stability of our planet at risk, writes this trust finance chief

International Education Strategy gets its first update since 2019, as Labour touts demand for UK education worldwide

Ofsted will check mobile phone policies in every inspection, with schools expected to be ‘phone-free by default’

Scotland’s education secretary ‘urgently’ wants to find ‘creative ways’ to encourage primary teachers to retrain for the secondary sector to help with staffing problems

EIS members are to vote again on strike action over workload, with the teaching union hitting out at ‘restrictive’ laws that meant it failed to win a mandate from its initial ballot

School sector leaders raise concerns about the value, purpose and equity of the government plan to push ahead with Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts