The Government’s plans to introduce a compulsory register for home-educated children risk failing to protect them unless councils are given the powers to enter premises to check on them, the LGA has warned.
The Government has announced plans to improve the education of disadvantaged children after a report found they are falling behind at school.
A new report commissioned by the LGA has shown schools that remain with their council are more likely to keep a ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating than those that become an academy.
The LGA has called for an extension to the date by which apprenticeship levy funding should be spent, and for a shake-up of the programme to help boost the number of apprenticeships.
A series of high-profile academy failures has damaged children’s education, according to a critical report from MPs.
Thousands of children face missing out on a secondary school place in the next five years, with more than half of all councils in England at risk of not being able to meet demand, according to new analysis by the LGA.
A report by the National Association of Head Teachers has found that 94 per cent of schools are finding it harder to meet the needs of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) than they did two years ago.