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The Department for Education (DfE) is claiming that the new league tables vindicate its policy of challenging failing schools to improve or face forced academisation. With 60% less primary schools failing to hit floor targets, perhaps they have a point.
Understandably, teaching unions NAHT and the ATL disagree, taking the view that the tables show that schools can improve regardless of their status and that this is evidence that the current system is working well.
The sector is divided on the best approach, but it seems highly unlikely that Mr Gove will pull back from forced academisation or indeed slow the pace of change. Perhaps the government will go further and consider elements of the policy exchange report which suggests that the private sector could yet be a force for good in education.
Divided opinion will remain as will forced academisation. Perhaps Mr Gove may even up the pace of change in 2013.
The recent case of R (on the application of A Parent) v Governing Body of XYZ School [2022] EWHC 1146 (Admin) provides some welcome and reassuring guidance to governing boards on the exclusion reconsideration process.
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With 19 HR experts now supporting over 500 schools and trusts across the country, in this edition of 60 seconds we sit down with Emma Hughes, who leads the team, to discuss what this significant milestone means to her.
In order to reduce the risk of potential breaches, schools should follow this Health and Safety Executive guidance.
A ResPublica report highlighted that asbestos continues to be the UK’s number one occupational killer, with nurses and teachers 3 to 5 times more likely to develop mesothelioma than the general UK population. The House of Commons Work & Pensions Select Committee is investigating how the HSE manages the continued presence of asbestos in buildings.
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