Weekly round-up: Tasks teachers shouldn’t do and the end of PRP

Catch up on your must-read education news and analysis from the past seven days here:

• DfE ‘reinserts’ list of tasks teachers should not do
  The Department for Education this week said it will reinstate a revised list of administrative tasks that teachers should not have to do, as part of its pledge to reduce teacher and leader workload.
• Revealed: The 23 tasks teachers shouldn’t do
  The DfE’s Workload Reduction Taskforce has recommended a list of tasks teachers should not have to do - but it is very similar to a list created 10 years ago, writes Dan Worth.
• How we’re giving teachers a nine-day fortnight
  Dixons Academies’ CEO Luke Sparkes explains how the trust is introducing a radical flexible-working policy to help tackle teacher workload and boost recruitment and retention.
• DfE to scrap performance-related pay
  The government has pledged to scrap performance-related pay progression amid concerns about the workload burden it creates for teachers and school leaders.
• Performance-related pay is ending - but what comes next?
  The end of the decade-long bonus pay experiment may be welcomed by many, but it leaves questions about how future wage rises will be decided, says the EPI’s James Zuccollo.
• Ofsted Ruth Perry coroner response: all you need to know
  Ofsted this week responded to a report by the coroner in the Ruth Perry inquest, which warned of a risk of future deaths unless action was taken by the watchdog.
• School leaders demand ungraded inspections
  Ofsted should carry out ungraded inspections on schools for an interim period while the watchdog works on making major changes, according to headteachers’ leaders.
• NEU to launch fresh strike ballot
  The country’s biggest teaching union has set a date for a preliminary ballot on strike action over teacher pay and school funding.
• DfE guidance aims to ‘tackle bullying and harassment’ of school staff
  The government has said it will publish guidance for schools to help prevent the bullying and harassment of staff, amid an “increase in unacceptable behaviour”.
• Keegan admits SEND system isn’t working well ‘for anybody’
  Education secretary Gillian Keegan has admitted that the country’s special educational needs and disability system is not functioning as it should.
• Trusts alarmed at Keegan’s ‘change of tone’ on academies
  The national organisation representing multi-academy trusts will “urgently” seek clarification from the education secretary over comments she made about the future of academisation.
• 30,000 top maths pupils ‘disappear’ at secondary school
  Half of disadvantaged primary pupils who achieve top Sats marks in maths see a significant decline in attainment by the time they take their GCSEs, research shows.
• Rachel de Souza: ‘Work was one of the loves of my life’
  In our How I Lead series, we ask education leaders to reflect on their careers, their leadership philosophy and their experience of leading. This month, we talk to children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza.
  
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