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Performance management is a process used to develop teachers in their careers and, at the same time, assess their ability to perform to the expected standards. It helps schools provide and maintain high standards of teaching for pupils and parents as well...
The implementation of the new rules around statutory flexible working requests will be coming into force on 6 April 2024, so here we look at what schools need to do in response. The key changes are detailed in the table below: Current Rules (to 5...
Schools and academies have a duty of care to do all they reasonably can to support their staff’s health, safety and wellbeing. This duty includes ensuring the working environment is safe, protecting staff from discrimination and, where relevant,...
Often, successful claims against employers for discrimination relating to menopause could have been avoided with the training of staff, appropriate policies being put in place, and active implementation of those policies. Below are some thoughts for...
Two key changes are anticipated as a result of the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 that employers within the education sector should be aware of. The changes are anticipated to come into force in October 2024, so academies,...
A waking day curriculum describes where the educational curriculum is delivered throughout all waking hours and is not just limited to what can be provided for during the school day. A waking day curriculum regularly forms part of a residential...
Phase transfer refers to when a child or young person moves between the different phases of education, such as from primary school to secondary school or secondary school to a post 16 institution. If a child or young person has an Education, Health and...
Home to school transport is often a key issue for parents and carers. It is also important for a local authority, but for different reasons, including that the cost of transport can be significant. Therefore, a local authority will often seek to reduce...
A child or young person will have an EHCP because their special education needs ( SEN ) call for special educational provision to be made in accordance with an EHCP. The local authority responsible for providing provision set out in an EHCP will be the one...
On 20 April 2022 the Upper- Tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability confirmed in London Borough of Croydon v K.A. [2022] UKUT 106 (AAC), the importance of having a broader and more holistic approach to the application of Section 9 of the...
On 11 May 2022 the Upper-Tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability confirmed in RB v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council (SEN) [2022] UKUT 136 (AAC) that there is a distinction between matters brought under the Children and Families Act...
What are the duties of local authorities in relation to providing education to children? Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 states that parents who have children of compulsory school age must secure an education for them and that the education must be...
If you are a parent of a child who is soon to begin their primary school education, you would have likely received a letter today (19 April 2022) from your Local Authority (council) confirming whether your child has been accepted into any of your previously...
As a result of the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, and the discovery that it seems to have a significant reproduction number, the Prime Minister yesterday announced the implementation of “Plan B”. Today, the Department for Education...
