by Sam | 29 Aug 2014 | Children and Families
With the SEND reforms introduced by the Children and Families Act officially becoming law from Monday, the Department for Education has published a guide for local authorities on their responsibilities in regards to the transition to the new system. The guidance...
by Sam | 8 Aug 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services
“British values”… nobody really knows what that means and nobody will ever agree what it should mean – and I personally don’t believe it should be the Government’s job to decide it, but there is a general consensus on what it...
by Sam | 8 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Olly from PSI: There are 22 non-Ministerial Government agencies in England, from HM Revenue and Customs to the Food Standards Agency to Ofsted. These bodies have a significant amount of power but, as their names suggest, they are mostly independent from Ministerial...
by Chris Rogers | 13 Feb 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Olly from PSI: It was billed as Round Three of the Ofsted – DfE row (at least by PSI): The Education Select Committee’s annual scrutiny session on the Ofsted Annual Report. HM Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw was addressing MPs for the first time since...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Feb 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services
Early years provision is both the first and final frontier of education policy, the first chronologically but the final theoretically as, quite understandably, no Government has felt the State should mandate a defined path that all young children should follow as it...
