Unions

Schools will have less than a term to prepare the new enrichment entitlements before Ofsted inspects them, with sector leaders warning this is a ‘recipe for heightening stress’

Heads vote for union to consider all steps up to and including industrial action over any below-inflation three-year pay deal

High-stakes accountability ‘just doesn’t work’, says Sinéad Mc Brearty, who chairs the NAHT advisory panel on the Ofsted framework

The rising costs that schools are facing could undermine the government’s White Paper plans, the NAHT’s general secretary tells the union’s annual conference

Suspensions have risen in primary schools but fallen in secondaries. Here, education leaders tell Tes what they think is behind the contrasting trends

Dave Woods will also tell the union’s annual conference that education staff are now ‘frontline fighters’ against ‘dark forces of hate’

Schools with an above-average number of pupils with SEND are more likely to be marked down by watchdog for attendance and behaviour, analysis finds

Government under pressure to go further with its restrictions on phones in schools – but unions warn of the cost of solutions such as introducing lockable pouches for devices

School leaders warn of ‘ageing buildings that aren’t even warm or watertight’ as the NAHT prepares to debate the issue of funding for the school estate at its annual conference

With nearly one in 10 secondary teachers saying that phone use disrupted their most recent lesson, will the government’s planned legal change on phones in schools help?

Independent review finds that lobbying groups did not influence the school or trust in the decision to postpone a Jewish MP’s visit last year

SEND and curriculum reforms create ‘significant’ workload that necessitates more Inset days, states motion to NAHT annual conference