The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced to Parliament in December, includes plans for new registers to identify children who are not in school – something for which the LGA has lobbied for years.
Schools that stay with their council have continued to outperform those that converted to academies, research commissioned by the LGA has revealed.
The LGA has reiterated calls for councils to be given powers to ensure that children who are missing school don’t slip through the net.
Council-maintained schools are outperforming academies, new research for the LGA reveals.
Councils will be given powers to set up their own multi-academy trusts, following many years of campaigning by the LGA.
A total of £118 million for disadvantaged pupils could be lost from school budgets in England this year because of a government change in how this funding is calculated, new LGA analysis shows.
As first was going to press, schools in England were preparing for the return of all pupils from 8 March, as part of the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown.
Education inequalities and learning gaps have been exacerbated by the pandemic to such an extent that they are unlikely to be solved by a quick “catch-up” initiative, the LGA has warned.
