Edition 412 done and dusted
We lead on the £20bn SEND time bomb from this week’s budget bedlam
Inside the country’s biggest academy rebroker
The trust asking pupils for engagement solutions
No more leadership heroes
What Ofsted grade reform means for flagship scheme entry
We lead on the £20bn SEND time bomb from this week’s budget bedlam
Inside the country’s biggest academy rebroker
The trust asking pupils for engagement solutions
No more leadership heroes
What Ofsted grade reform means for flagship scheme entry
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Edition 412 done and dusted
We lead on the £20bn SEND time bomb from this week’s budget bedlam
Inside the country’s biggest academy rebroker
The trust asking pupils for engagement solutions
No more leadership heroes
What Ofsted grade reform means for flagship scheme entry
We lead on the £20bn SEND time bomb from this week’s budget bedlam
Inside the country’s biggest academy rebroker
The trust asking pupils for engagement solutions
No more leadership heroes
What Ofsted grade reform means for flagship scheme entry
Going for the start of second session, and all I’m asking for is for England to not be 80-5
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Going for the start of second session, and all I’m asking for is for England to not be 80-5
Edition 411 done and dusted:
Investigation: Councils don’t know how many home educated kids are under child protection enquiries
Scoop: PFI firm in multi-million pound schools repair row goes bust
Longread on new inspections
Plus: attendance awareness courses, GAG pooling, MAT mergers
Investigation: Councils don’t know how many home educated kids are under child protection enquiries
Scoop: PFI firm in multi-million pound schools repair row goes bust
Longread on new inspections
Plus: attendance awareness courses, GAG pooling, MAT mergers
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Edition 411 done and dusted:
Investigation: Councils don’t know how many home educated kids are under child protection enquiries
Scoop: PFI firm in multi-million pound schools repair row goes bust
Longread on new inspections
Plus: attendance awareness courses, GAG pooling, MAT mergers
Investigation: Councils don’t know how many home educated kids are under child protection enquiries
Scoop: PFI firm in multi-million pound schools repair row goes bust
Longread on new inspections
Plus: attendance awareness courses, GAG pooling, MAT mergers
Edition 410 done and dusted
Scoop: Ofsted consultation analysis row takes a new turn 👀
Solutions: teacher interns?
Investigation: thousands of teachers potentially due better pension die before outcome
Rise in pupils educated at home causes exams centre blockage
Scoop: Ofsted consultation analysis row takes a new turn 👀
Solutions: teacher interns?
Investigation: thousands of teachers potentially due better pension die before outcome
Rise in pupils educated at home causes exams centre blockage
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Edition 410 done and dusted
Scoop: Ofsted consultation analysis row takes a new turn 👀
Solutions: teacher interns?
Investigation: thousands of teachers potentially due better pension die before outcome
Rise in pupils educated at home causes exams centre blockage
Scoop: Ofsted consultation analysis row takes a new turn 👀
Solutions: teacher interns?
Investigation: thousands of teachers potentially due better pension die before outcome
Rise in pupils educated at home causes exams centre blockage
Edition 409 done and dusted:
A curriculum and assessment review SPECIAL ...
PLUS:
Government plans £3m SEND research centre
Do schools really have too many assistant heads?
Ministers scope out plan to help schools boost investment returns
A curriculum and assessment review SPECIAL ...
PLUS:
Government plans £3m SEND research centre
Do schools really have too many assistant heads?
Ministers scope out plan to help schools boost investment returns
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Edition 409 done and dusted:
A curriculum and assessment review SPECIAL ...
PLUS:
Government plans £3m SEND research centre
Do schools really have too many assistant heads?
Ministers scope out plan to help schools boost investment returns
A curriculum and assessment review SPECIAL ...
PLUS:
Government plans £3m SEND research centre
Do schools really have too many assistant heads?
Ministers scope out plan to help schools boost investment returns
Edition 408 done and dusted …
White paper scoop: ambition for all schools in a group planned
Profile: curriculum tsar Becky Francis
Mary Myatt on the Wasted Years
Leadership lessons from the Southport tragedy
A teacher on indefinite leave to remain writes …
White paper scoop: ambition for all schools in a group planned
Profile: curriculum tsar Becky Francis
Mary Myatt on the Wasted Years
Leadership lessons from the Southport tragedy
A teacher on indefinite leave to remain writes …
October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Edition 408 done and dusted …
White paper scoop: ambition for all schools in a group planned
Profile: curriculum tsar Becky Francis
Mary Myatt on the Wasted Years
Leadership lessons from the Southport tragedy
A teacher on indefinite leave to remain writes …
White paper scoop: ambition for all schools in a group planned
Profile: curriculum tsar Becky Francis
Mary Myatt on the Wasted Years
Leadership lessons from the Southport tragedy
A teacher on indefinite leave to remain writes …
This story will divide opinion - below is a ‘deepfake’ video based on a real teacher that the school made for us
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This story will divide opinion - below is a ‘deepfake’ video based on a real teacher that the school made for us
Edition 407 done and dusted:
So much for saving money: Reform council eyes school budget raid
Scoop: trust plans to roll out deepfake teacher avatars to cut workload
Long read on SEND cluster funding
Legal explainer on campaigning pupils
So much for saving money: Reform council eyes school budget raid
Scoop: trust plans to roll out deepfake teacher avatars to cut workload
Long read on SEND cluster funding
Legal explainer on campaigning pupils
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Edition 407 done and dusted:
So much for saving money: Reform council eyes school budget raid
Scoop: trust plans to roll out deepfake teacher avatars to cut workload
Long read on SEND cluster funding
Legal explainer on campaigning pupils
So much for saving money: Reform council eyes school budget raid
Scoop: trust plans to roll out deepfake teacher avatars to cut workload
Long read on SEND cluster funding
Legal explainer on campaigning pupils
Also - can't help admire/despair at the DfE's attempts to spin this as a positive story in an embargoed press release sent to journos yesterday, before the actual bursary information was published
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Also - can't help admire/despair at the DfE's attempts to spin this as a positive story in an embargoed press release sent to journos yesterday, before the actual bursary information was published
Edition 406 done and dusted:
Another big white paper scoop
Investigation: RISE advisers call in support from ... their fellow advisers' organisations
The best Labour party conference analysis
Views on Ofsted’s similar schools, home visits, beating Autumn blues and retention
Another big white paper scoop
Investigation: RISE advisers call in support from ... their fellow advisers' organisations
The best Labour party conference analysis
Views on Ofsted’s similar schools, home visits, beating Autumn blues and retention
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Edition 406 done and dusted:
Another big white paper scoop
Investigation: RISE advisers call in support from ... their fellow advisers' organisations
The best Labour party conference analysis
Views on Ofsted’s similar schools, home visits, beating Autumn blues and retention
Another big white paper scoop
Investigation: RISE advisers call in support from ... their fellow advisers' organisations
The best Labour party conference analysis
Views on Ofsted’s similar schools, home visits, beating Autumn blues and retention
Edition 405, sneak peek:
Scoop: Labour's white paper to introduce mandatory year 8 reading test
Watchdog sides with school in fair banding row
Long-read: Ofsted chief slams schools over 'tech tax'
An inside look on how SEND reforms are shaping up
Scoop: Labour's white paper to introduce mandatory year 8 reading test
Watchdog sides with school in fair banding row
Long-read: Ofsted chief slams schools over 'tech tax'
An inside look on how SEND reforms are shaping up
September 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Edition 405, sneak peek:
Scoop: Labour's white paper to introduce mandatory year 8 reading test
Watchdog sides with school in fair banding row
Long-read: Ofsted chief slams schools over 'tech tax'
An inside look on how SEND reforms are shaping up
Scoop: Labour's white paper to introduce mandatory year 8 reading test
Watchdog sides with school in fair banding row
Long-read: Ofsted chief slams schools over 'tech tax'
An inside look on how SEND reforms are shaping up
Edition 404 done and dusted
Special school admissions investigation
The sector grades Ofsted
Our first Boardroom Leader
Northern Star Academies Trust takes the School Spotlight
@edsupportuk.bsky.social CEO talks defining high stakes
Special school admissions investigation
The sector grades Ofsted
Our first Boardroom Leader
Northern Star Academies Trust takes the School Spotlight
@edsupportuk.bsky.social CEO talks defining high stakes
September 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Edition 404 done and dusted
Special school admissions investigation
The sector grades Ofsted
Our first Boardroom Leader
Northern Star Academies Trust takes the School Spotlight
@edsupportuk.bsky.social CEO talks defining high stakes
Special school admissions investigation
The sector grades Ofsted
Our first Boardroom Leader
Northern Star Academies Trust takes the School Spotlight
@edsupportuk.bsky.social CEO talks defining high stakes
Edition 403, done and dusted
Scoop: Ofsted won’t publish full consultation findings
Investigation: armed forces now flag SEND failures
@lydiach.bsky.social hunts for education policy at Reform conference
@jackydys.bsky.social digs into new RISE expansion
Plus: can schools handle voting at 16?
Scoop: Ofsted won’t publish full consultation findings
Investigation: armed forces now flag SEND failures
@lydiach.bsky.social hunts for education policy at Reform conference
@jackydys.bsky.social digs into new RISE expansion
Plus: can schools handle voting at 16?
September 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Edition 403, done and dusted
Scoop: Ofsted won’t publish full consultation findings
Investigation: armed forces now flag SEND failures
@lydiach.bsky.social hunts for education policy at Reform conference
@jackydys.bsky.social digs into new RISE expansion
Plus: can schools handle voting at 16?
Scoop: Ofsted won’t publish full consultation findings
Investigation: armed forces now flag SEND failures
@lydiach.bsky.social hunts for education policy at Reform conference
@jackydys.bsky.social digs into new RISE expansion
Plus: can schools handle voting at 16?
Here's the reshuffle details - looks like Bridget Phillipson remains as education secretary
September 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Here's the reshuffle details - looks like Bridget Phillipson remains as education secretary
Edition 401 (our last of the school year):
Scoop: DfE eyeing changes to Teach First contract
Investigation: schools pushed further into deficit
Campaign: ex-teachers challenge support plan ‘misuse’
Feature: the post-16 AP financial cliff edge
Profile: Josh MacAlister
Interview: James Toop
Scoop: DfE eyeing changes to Teach First contract
Investigation: schools pushed further into deficit
Campaign: ex-teachers challenge support plan ‘misuse’
Feature: the post-16 AP financial cliff edge
Profile: Josh MacAlister
Interview: James Toop
July 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Edition 401 (our last of the school year):
Scoop: DfE eyeing changes to Teach First contract
Investigation: schools pushed further into deficit
Campaign: ex-teachers challenge support plan ‘misuse’
Feature: the post-16 AP financial cliff edge
Profile: Josh MacAlister
Interview: James Toop
Scoop: DfE eyeing changes to Teach First contract
Investigation: schools pushed further into deficit
Campaign: ex-teachers challenge support plan ‘misuse’
Feature: the post-16 AP financial cliff edge
Profile: Josh MacAlister
Interview: James Toop
Edition 400 done and dusted (nearly)
Live from Festival of Education
One Year of Labour special, including an exclusive opinion piece from Bridget Phillipson
Splash on unregistered AP probe
And Martyn Oliver on why Ofsted is moving so fast
Live from Festival of Education
One Year of Labour special, including an exclusive opinion piece from Bridget Phillipson
Splash on unregistered AP probe
And Martyn Oliver on why Ofsted is moving so fast
July 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Edition 400 done and dusted (nearly)
Live from Festival of Education
One Year of Labour special, including an exclusive opinion piece from Bridget Phillipson
Splash on unregistered AP probe
And Martyn Oliver on why Ofsted is moving so fast
Live from Festival of Education
One Year of Labour special, including an exclusive opinion piece from Bridget Phillipson
Splash on unregistered AP probe
And Martyn Oliver on why Ofsted is moving so fast
Edition 399 done and dusted
Splash: big falling rolls story
Feature: the trust CEOs who DO like the schools bill
Investigation: how the social care crisis hits schools
Opinions: ChatGPT, unregistered AP, wellbeing and attendance
Splash: big falling rolls story
Feature: the trust CEOs who DO like the schools bill
Investigation: how the social care crisis hits schools
Opinions: ChatGPT, unregistered AP, wellbeing and attendance
June 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Edition 399 done and dusted
Splash: big falling rolls story
Feature: the trust CEOs who DO like the schools bill
Investigation: how the social care crisis hits schools
Opinions: ChatGPT, unregistered AP, wellbeing and attendance
Splash: big falling rolls story
Feature: the trust CEOs who DO like the schools bill
Investigation: how the social care crisis hits schools
Opinions: ChatGPT, unregistered AP, wellbeing and attendance
Edition 398 done and dusted:
Scoop: quality warning after DfE urges recruitment boost
Investigation: the murky world of social media exam predictions
Interview: @mrp-ict.bsky.social on his MBE
The key stage 3 conundrum
@moremorrow.bsky.social on Jamie Oliver critics
Scoop: quality warning after DfE urges recruitment boost
Investigation: the murky world of social media exam predictions
Interview: @mrp-ict.bsky.social on his MBE
The key stage 3 conundrum
@moremorrow.bsky.social on Jamie Oliver critics
June 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Edition 398 done and dusted:
Scoop: quality warning after DfE urges recruitment boost
Investigation: the murky world of social media exam predictions
Interview: @mrp-ict.bsky.social on his MBE
The key stage 3 conundrum
@moremorrow.bsky.social on Jamie Oliver critics
Scoop: quality warning after DfE urges recruitment boost
Investigation: the murky world of social media exam predictions
Interview: @mrp-ict.bsky.social on his MBE
The key stage 3 conundrum
@moremorrow.bsky.social on Jamie Oliver critics
Edition 397 done and dusted
Spending review special
Investigation: how school staff are forced to provide complex medical care
Social mobility chair tells heads to ‘shut up’ about poverty
And we profile the man leading Schools North East
Spending review special
Investigation: how school staff are forced to provide complex medical care
Social mobility chair tells heads to ‘shut up’ about poverty
And we profile the man leading Schools North East
June 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Edition 397 done and dusted
Spending review special
Investigation: how school staff are forced to provide complex medical care
Social mobility chair tells heads to ‘shut up’ about poverty
And we profile the man leading Schools North East
Spending review special
Investigation: how school staff are forced to provide complex medical care
Social mobility chair tells heads to ‘shut up’ about poverty
And we profile the man leading Schools North East
Edition 396:
Warning schools could break minimum pay rules
Investigation: how we’re burning out SENCos
Solutions on white working class outcomes + governor recruitment
Revealed: landmark data on maternity leave returners
And Jamie Oliver on what schools must do to cater for all
Warning schools could break minimum pay rules
Investigation: how we’re burning out SENCos
Solutions on white working class outcomes + governor recruitment
Revealed: landmark data on maternity leave returners
And Jamie Oliver on what schools must do to cater for all
June 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Edition 396:
Warning schools could break minimum pay rules
Investigation: how we’re burning out SENCos
Solutions on white working class outcomes + governor recruitment
Revealed: landmark data on maternity leave returners
And Jamie Oliver on what schools must do to cater for all
Warning schools could break minimum pay rules
Investigation: how we’re burning out SENCos
Solutions on white working class outcomes + governor recruitment
Revealed: landmark data on maternity leave returners
And Jamie Oliver on what schools must do to cater for all
Our most amazing chief reporter @samanthajbooth.bsky.social HAS WON the specialist journalist of the year at the Press Awards
A truly phenomenal achievement. She beat off journalists reporting on war with her *amazing* journalism exposing the SEND crisis
So well deserved
A truly phenomenal achievement. She beat off journalists reporting on war with her *amazing* journalism exposing the SEND crisis
So well deserved
May 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Our most amazing chief reporter @samanthajbooth.bsky.social HAS WON the specialist journalist of the year at the Press Awards
A truly phenomenal achievement. She beat off journalists reporting on war with her *amazing* journalism exposing the SEND crisis
So well deserved
A truly phenomenal achievement. She beat off journalists reporting on war with her *amazing* journalism exposing the SEND crisis
So well deserved
Chuffed to be @samanthajbooth.bsky.social for the Press Awards tonight
It’s *very rare* specialist publications even get nominated for these awards, so a huge achievement
Sam has been nominated for her unrivalled and phenomenal reporting into the SEND crisis.
Super proud 🙌
It’s *very rare* specialist publications even get nominated for these awards, so a huge achievement
Sam has been nominated for her unrivalled and phenomenal reporting into the SEND crisis.
Super proud 🙌
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Chuffed to be @samanthajbooth.bsky.social for the Press Awards tonight
It’s *very rare* specialist publications even get nominated for these awards, so a huge achievement
Sam has been nominated for her unrivalled and phenomenal reporting into the SEND crisis.
Super proud 🙌
It’s *very rare* specialist publications even get nominated for these awards, so a huge achievement
Sam has been nominated for her unrivalled and phenomenal reporting into the SEND crisis.
Super proud 🙌
Edition 394 done and dusted:
How Labour’s disability benefits cut will harm ‘school ready’ pledge
SEND reforms start to take shape
@daisychristo.bsky.social on AI and assessment
School mental health promises - where are we at?
How to make RISE teams accountable
👇
How Labour’s disability benefits cut will harm ‘school ready’ pledge
SEND reforms start to take shape
@daisychristo.bsky.social on AI and assessment
School mental health promises - where are we at?
How to make RISE teams accountable
👇
May 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Edition 394 done and dusted:
How Labour’s disability benefits cut will harm ‘school ready’ pledge
SEND reforms start to take shape
@daisychristo.bsky.social on AI and assessment
School mental health promises - where are we at?
How to make RISE teams accountable
👇
How Labour’s disability benefits cut will harm ‘school ready’ pledge
SEND reforms start to take shape
@daisychristo.bsky.social on AI and assessment
School mental health promises - where are we at?
How to make RISE teams accountable
👇
A little more clarification on where accountability sits for making improvements at ‘stuck’ schools
Good chance to republish this fab @sdupp.bsky.social cartoon from last year
Good chance to republish this fab @sdupp.bsky.social cartoon from last year
May 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A little more clarification on where accountability sits for making improvements at ‘stuck’ schools
Good chance to republish this fab @sdupp.bsky.social cartoon from last year
Good chance to republish this fab @sdupp.bsky.social cartoon from last year
Edition 393 sneak peek:
Scoop: Ofsted mulls inspection reform delay
Story: how budget cuts are putting trusts and unions on collision course
@matthewhood.bsky.social on why it’s time to ditch EHCPs (and how to replace them)
@steverollett.bsky.social on changing the trust funding narrative
Scoop: Ofsted mulls inspection reform delay
Story: how budget cuts are putting trusts and unions on collision course
@matthewhood.bsky.social on why it’s time to ditch EHCPs (and how to replace them)
@steverollett.bsky.social on changing the trust funding narrative
May 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Edition 393 sneak peek:
Scoop: Ofsted mulls inspection reform delay
Story: how budget cuts are putting trusts and unions on collision course
@matthewhood.bsky.social on why it’s time to ditch EHCPs (and how to replace them)
@steverollett.bsky.social on changing the trust funding narrative
Scoop: Ofsted mulls inspection reform delay
Story: how budget cuts are putting trusts and unions on collision course
@matthewhood.bsky.social on why it’s time to ditch EHCPs (and how to replace them)
@steverollett.bsky.social on changing the trust funding narrative