The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has reminded parents and carers of the small changes they can make to ensure their children have a healthy start to the new year and a new school term.

Former schools minister for the Conservative government Nick Gibb has been knighted in the new year’s honours, while former union leader Geoff Barton received a CBE.

The Education Committee has launched a new inquiry focused on finding solutions to the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision.

Young boy with his hand raised in a classroom.

Ofsted has published its first monitoring report on the 132 commitments made in the Big Listen, as well as the response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review.

Children make robots.

This week, children of all ages visited Sellafield’s Engineering Centre of Excellence in Cumbria this week to learn about Sellafield’s work and explore their own potential and interest in engineering.

Teacher holds up Scottish flag to children.

Thanks to £53.4 million investment from the Scottish government, first minister John Swinney has opened two new schools in Dunfermline, Fife.

Woman teaching English to a classroom

The Scottish government has provided Glasgow ESOL Partnership with £500,000 to benefit refugees, people seeking asylum, and other forced migrants with speaking English. 

Woman completing online training

Ofsted has published three more recordings of school inspector training materials, after the first collection was published earlier this term.

Woman studying on laptop.

Data from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has found that the gap between women and men opting for computer-related degrees is the smallest it has ever been, with female students closing the gap on men.

Father taking his child to school.

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is set to be introduced in Parliament today (17th December), which will be central to delivering on the government’s Plan for Change by making children’s futures priority.

A girl wearing a hearing aid sings in a choir.

The minister for further and higher education, Vikki Howells, met staff and learners from the Cwmbran D/deaf Choir on a visit to the Newport Campus, and saw their Christmas concert.

A new Ofsted report highlights the systemic challenges that are limiting their ability to provide these young people with strong preparation for adulthood arrangements.  

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