Only 1% of school leaders have enough funding for special educational needs and disabilities to meet children’s needs NAHT

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.Tes MAT tracker, aims to bring more transparency to the academies sector

Now, former schools minister Robin Walker has admitted he had “concerns” changes made to the role of RDs when he was schools minister saying he was “not hugely keen on the idea”

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Read my latest opinion piece in the Tes . Tonight we launch the new book Association of Education Advisers ‘The Role of the Education Adviser’, with incredible reviews.

.Les Walton CBE FRSA FCCT’s new book aims to ‘fill a gap’ and help the sector ‘reconsider a fundamental aspect of our education system: the support and empowerment of schools’
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Ofsted education chief: The discourse over single-word judgements is the 'right debate to be had'

The watchdog's National Director of Education Lee Owston speaks exclusively to Tes after the DfE ruled out changing the controversial single-word grade.

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➡️ Ofsted education chief: Big Listen will consider single-word judgements

In an exclusive interview with Cerys Turner Lee Owston talks inspections, judgements, safeguarding, frameworks and change in an election year.

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Strong comments from former schools minister Robin Walker who warns that DfE the system of regional directors that governs school academisation conversions is “a black box” and their decisions lack “visibility'. tes.com/magazine/news/… . Tes exclusive by tilda martin

Ofsted's new national director of education Lee Owston speaks to Cerys Turner about the Big Listen and single word inspection grades, the importance of safeguarding and what is next for inspector training. tes.com/magazine/news/…

Should fixing the structure of the school system be an election priority?

My first piece for Tes is a write-up of a debate at yesterday’s Schools & Academies Show tes.com/magazine/analy…

John Swinney is poised to become first minister - but what does it mean for education? Analysis by Emma Seith tes.com/magazine/analy… Tes Scotland Tes

The Tes team is on route to Newport for the NAHT annual conference

Do come say 👋 to myself Mary-Louise Clews Jasmine Norden Cerys Turner or let us know if you want to grab a coffee/drink

Sir Martyn told the Schools & Academies Show that there should not be a system where trusts “are afraid to take on schools because of anything to do with Ofsted”.

He also warned that schools that off-roll pupils should be made inadequate👇

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Exclusive: ‘Unlike the official Big Listen, the Alternative Big Listen ensures [the right] questions are explicitly “on the table”,’ says Julia Waters of the new school inspection consultation launched by former inspectors
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Former senior Ofsted inspectors have launched their own 'Alternative Big Listen' today because they are concerned that the watchdog's official consultation has avoided asking important questions - including whether people support single word grades. tes.com/magazine/news/…

EXCL from John Roberts 👇

An alternative consultation on Ofsted reform is being launched today by some of the watchdog's former inspectors.

The Alternative Big Listen will directly seek views on single-word judgements (unlike the original Big Listen)

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As Sir Dan Moynihan explains in this v moving pod, the housing crisis overlaps with the teacher shortage crisis.

But the govt quietly dropped plans to explore an affordable teacher housing scheme, claiming a “lack of demand”🔗tes.com/magazine/news/…

The presence of RAAC in a school’s building will be ‘sufficient grounds to defer the inspection’, says Ofsted
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This is much needed, but it is extremely complex and will need very careful implementational planning in order secure an equitable system that provides both certainty and sufficiency, whilst avoiding a multitude of possible unintended consequences. tes.com/magazine/news/…

Strong statement from Pepe Di’Iasio in his first column for Tes - great to have him analysing the system for the sector in our pages.

The DfE is actively considering changing the way special schools are funded as a senior official admits it is a 'very odd situation' for the money per place to have remained at £10k for more than ten years. tes.com/magazine/news/…