Clearly, the best place for students is in school but there are many factors causing our current absence figures.
These figures only refer to the capacity of each school and do not even consider the staffing crisis within schools, where we know recruitment targets are missed year after year.
We urgently need a child poverty strategy setting out clear policy objectives to tackle the prevalence of child poverty.
ASCL, Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU have issued a united call for a fully funded, inflation-plus pay increase to tackle the recruitment and retention crisis.
Unless this and any future Government addresses teacher pay, workload and school funding we shall only see the teacher recruitment and retention crisis deepen.
This Government’s solution to its failure to hit its own teacher training targets is to move the goalposts.
NEU Cymru’s supply teacher members will be pleased with most of the IWPRB’s recommendations in their review.
Time to rebalance an ineffective school accountability system and focus on helping education share its successes and support improvement.
The Government's failure to properly fund schools across the country means reduced resources and staffing cuts.
This NFER report is further evidence that the complexity of pupils’ needs are placing pressure on mainstream schools due to a lack of special school places.
This report highlights an inspection and accountability system that is largely indifferent to the individual circumstances of different schools and pupil demographics.
New research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows the beneficial impact Sure Start centres have on children and the support they offer to families.
