Some personal news …
12.01.2026 10:01
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Some personal news …
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
All eyes on whether the budget tomorrow does anything to provide some relief for councils with multi-billion deficits ...
Bournemouth council suggests in council minutes that government is looking at options to announce before Xmas
What a mess
Bournemouth council faces £183m SEND deficit, and £10m in interest costs to finance the debt .... paid from its general fund (made up of council tax, business rates etc)
It wants to use high needs cash to pay the debt instead, which would hit schools
schoolsweek.co.uk/council-faci...
If anyone wants to do a review of the feature for us then do get in touch with me!
(All reviews are done with a critical eye - no free PR)
England should have set 300-plus there. Really disappointing batting
Oz huge favourites now, bowlers going to have to be perfect again for England to win
May be time to revisit that…
Ah man 🫣 🏏
Such an interesting article by Cathie Paine from @reach2trust.bsky.social Great for the sector to hear from larger trusts on the realities of how they make and manage change.
Well that was a good decision. What a start to the series
Apology accepted
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Don’t speak too soon
Eurgh
Worth it for that Brook six alone
Decamped to the living room for second session. Feels very optimistic but there we go
Also, not sure what’s worse: England’s wafty top order or these atrocious weight transfer graphic things
Woke up a bit earlier and been watching from the fourth over 😭
Going for the start of second session, and all I’m asking for is for England to not be 80-5
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Big story in the country's biggest schools PFI deal, which ended last month
The PFI firm is going into liquidation, with millions of pounds worth of school repairs still outstanding
schoolsweek.co.uk/pfi-firm-in-...
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
gosh!
We delved into this earlier this year
SENCos will be central to any government plan to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But are their roles even sustainable now?
Great investigation from @lydiach.bsky.social
schoolsweek.co.uk/burnt-out-an...
Those AI attendance reports have started well ...
Thank you @schoolsweek.bsky.social for highlighting this - a really thorough and well researched article.
Some very worrying stats here. Serious questions for government and Capita about why it is taking so long to process remedy statements stemming from the McCloud judgment. Can’t imagine the anguish of already-retired teachers and leaders waiting for missing money
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
🤖 Ministers will use AI to set minimum attendance targets for every school in England
Targets will not be published, or be given to Ofsted - but failure to improve will result in a referral to RISE teams
schoolsweek.co.uk/ai-to-set-mi...
Great to see wider pick up of this big story on a state school opening a fee-pay paying school abroad
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Schools Week broke the story over a year ago: schoolsweek.co.uk/warning-over...
The latest government plan to help schools balance their budgets:
Provide support to help them get better returns on their collective £6bn of funding in reserves
schoolsweek.co.uk/savings-plat...