Jack Dyson

Wow - absolutely amazing! To have had two reporters from our paper @KentishGazette shortlisted alongside journalists covering much larger patches is testament to the guidance and inspiration provided by our editor @JoeWalker17 and news editors @phil_hayes_ and @LowriChant.

🏫 Exclusive: Ministers are being urged to settle debate over their desired make-up of academy trusts after a huge MAT opted to give up two special schools it believes are better off in a SEND chain schoolsweek.co.uk/call-for-minis…

Exclusive: Ministers are set to publish data on the effectiveness of new RISE school improvement teams in the spring – but they won’t out individual advisers for poor performance schoolsweek.co.uk/impact-of-rise…

A trouble-hit academy trust has admitted it did not conduct internal financial checks as its deficit swelled to more than £8 million and it received another government loan to keep it afloat schoolsweek.co.uk/no-internal-au…

Exclusive: One of England’s biggest academy trusts is set to give up two special schools after deciding they would be better off in a specialist chain schoolsweek.co.uk/lift-academy-t…

👨‍🏫 When Andrew Truby took leadership of a Catholic trust, he was on his own and had no schools He reveals how he built the 'home for orphans’ and secured its future, during a career that has been characterised by seizing opportunities... 🔽 schoolsweek.co.uk/andrew-truby-c…

📝 Ofsted faces questions over whether it properly followed-up concerns about a leading academy’s behaviour policies, after a safeguarding review found it used 'isolating, shaming' practices on pupils schoolsweek.co.uk/questions-for-…

Going to do a longer post on this shortly, but it's quite astounding how many people didn't see properly beyond the £3bn and into the details of the special schools being scrapped or put into limbo...

Exclusive: School governing boards are urging Ofsted to ensure cash-strapped leaders are using SEND funding for children and not to fill other budgetary holes schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-should-…

❗The success of one of the highest-performing schools in the country has been 'achieved at too high a cost for some pupils', a safeguarding investigation has found schoolsweek.co.uk/mossbourne-suc…

🤔 Can internal AP help schools avoid exclusions? Or does it replicate the very punishment it seeks to prevent? We visited a school that believes its approach is a ‘beacon’ of what’s possible 🔽 schoolsweek.co.uk/school-spotlig…

Some worrying findings here: 📈 71% rise in council-run schools in deficit in three years ❗️48 schools over £1m in the red 📝Deficit schools charged up to £340k in 'interest'

Exclusive: A Catholic diocese plans to move all its schools into new mega MATs after tearing up its earlier academisation vision over fears the proposed trusts would be too small schoolsweek.co.uk/another-cathol…

Amid the success, there are rumblings of discontent over admissions and inclusion on the Isle of Sheppey Schools Week investigates…✍️

❌ Exclusive: A MAT chosen to support struggling schools through the government’s RISE programme has had its bid to absorb three new academies knocked back amid concerns that its outcomes are not good enough schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-support-t…

REAch2 set out to resolve funding inequity across its schools by pooling its funding. The trust had to pause the plans – but here’s what they learnt (and why they are still doing it) schoolsweek.co.uk/our-gag-poolin…

Exclusive: The firm overseeing England’s biggest school PFI contract is planning to 'go into liquidation' with millions of pounds worth of building repairs work still outstanding schoolsweek.co.uk/pfi-firm-in-sc…

Leaders recruited to the government’s RISE improvement programme have faced 'hostility' and resistance from the schools they are trying to turn around, an adviser said schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-advisers-…

Exclusive: A pioneering three-school trust in London plans to join one of England’s biggest MATs in the latest high-profile academy merger schoolsweek.co.uk/big-education-…

📝 The boss and co-founder of the Education Policy Institute will leave her role at the think tank for a senior job at the country’s largest exam board schoolsweek.co.uk/epi-chief-exec…

🏫 Exclusive: One of England’s biggest MATs is set to give up a founding school in a move that shows how important regional clusters are for national trusts schoolsweek.co.uk/ormiston-trust…