Around 210,000 children who would not have qualified for free school meals under the former system will gain entitlement under universal credits, while 160,000 will now be ineligible.
The Sutton Trust has reported that as many as 1,000 Sure Start children’s centres have closed since 2009, which is twice as many as the government has reported.
Only 38 per cent of headteachers at state secondary schools in England are women, despite the majority of teachers at those schools being female, according to new research.
Growing child poverty is affecting children’s learning and education staff are increasingly providing the services and essentials of daily life to stop families “falling through the cracks”, according to NEU education professionals.
A new survey conducted by NASUWT has found that out of 1,359 teachers, 96 per cent believe they come into contact with pupils who are experiencing mental health issues.
Exam regulator Ofqual has published its corporate plan for 2018 to 2021, which includes plans to regulate the “validity and safe delivery of general qualifications”.
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner is taking her party’s education policies, dubbed the National Education Service, on a ‘roadshow’ across England.
Teachers from across the UK, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Gibraltar will be gathering in Birmingham for the Annual Conference of the NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union, over the Easter weekend.