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Special educational needs services in England face “total collapse”, with councils on course to have run up debts of £18bn by the end of the decade…

Georgia Roberts,Political Correspondent and Alex Forsyth,Political correspondentGetty ImagesThe special educational needs and disabilities system for children in England faces “total collapse” and the government must not…

Schools in England are steering away children with special needs, leading some to have six times as many pupils requiring learning or behaviour support compared with…

Every school in England is to be issued with an AI-generated target for minimum pupil attendance, the government has announced, as part of its continuing efforts…

Ed Sheeran has taken partial credit for the government’s move to overhaul the teaching of music in England’s state schools shortly after being mentioned by the…

The year-long curriculum and assessment review headed by Prof Becky Francis was asked by the government to look at primary, secondary and aged 16-19 phases of…

A review of England’s curriculum has recommended reducing the amount of content and emphasis on exams and instead focusing more on life skills and “enrichment”.The review,…

Home-to-school transport costs in England have risen to £2.3bn a year, as increasing numbers of children with special educational needs and disabilities travel farther afield to…

How does an initiative achieve sustainability beyond the life cycle of the grants that funded its implementation? This is the question that the transfer initiatives team…

For many schools across England it is now October half-term – but while it used to be standard for state schools to have just one week,…