Date updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
In this month's edition:
- Exclusions - Role of Governors Now - and in the Future
- Discipline and Disability
- Industrial Action and Schools
- Admissions within a Multi Academy Trust
- Employing EEA Teachers After Brexit
- Schools’ roles and duties in dealing with peer-on-peer sex abuse
- New Directions? HMCI’s Speech to the Schools North East Summit
- Brief Alerts October 2018
- Exclusions - Role of Governors Now - and in the Future
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Exclusions are becoming a major policy issue (see Brief Alerts this month). Following on from our recent article on getting the basics of exclusions right, we turn to look at the role of Governors in reviewing exclusions. Where governors are required or requested to consider parents’ representations about an exclusion (depending on a number of relevant factors not discussed here), it is important that they do in fact have the power to do so. Failure to act with the proper authority (as with teachers making exclusion decisions) can mean decisions are challenged and overturned on the grounds of illegality.
- Discipline and Disability
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With the Education Select Committee’s recent announcement that increasing numbers of excluded pupils are being failed by the education system, schools’ attention is being constantly drawn to issues of discipline. Fundamentally, school rules are important. Here we provide a checklist of the issues a school faces when implementing its behaviour policy, in particular when sanctioning pupils with disabilities.
- Industrial Action and Schools
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In view of the increasing likelihood of new industrial action and the changes in
the relevant law introduced in 2017, we set out some relevant information.
- Employing EEA Teachers After Brexit
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It is hard to find a school that does not employ European Economic Area (EEA) nationals. One of the key Brexit questions is, “What will happen to EEA nationals in the UK when the UK leaves the EEA?” The Migratory Advisory Committee released their report on EEA nationals and migration in August. The recommendation is that people from the EEA should face the same immigration rules as those from outside the EEA and ties in with Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to end freedom of movement and adopt a skills-based migration policy. What could this mean in practice?
- Admissions within a Multi Academy Trust
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A Multi Academy Trust (“MAT”) is the admission authority for its schools and may comprise of several schools covering different phases of education, for example a single secondary school and a host of primary schools. It may seek to forge an identity in order that people instantly recognise that, say, Smithstown Primary School is part of The Balloon Academy Trust “BAT”. Let us say that BAT has a secondary school, and would like to give priority to those children attending Smithstown Primary School under its admission arrangements. Surely as part of the same trust it is automatically lawful to name Smithstown as a feeder school on that very basis?
- Schools’ roles and duties in dealing with peer-on-peer sex abuse
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Recent news stories about peer-on-peer abuse in schools, including primary schools, have suggested that some schools are unfamiliar with their duties in cases of such abuse. Keeping Children Safe in Education, September 2018 (KCSIE) requires schools to ‘ensure their child protection policy includes procedures to minimise the risk of [the different forms of] peer-on-peer abuse’ and how allegations will be ‘recorded, investigated and dealt with’.
- New Directions? HMCI’s Speech to the Schools North East Summit
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Anyone remember the Revised Code of 1862? A minister and his civil servants lay down what children should learn and how they will be tested. If schools do not meet the standard, they will lose their grant. “It will either be efficient or cheap,’ says the minister. The Inspectorate looks and says it is neither. Amanda Spielman’s speech at the Schools North East Summit on 11th October 2018 suggests the reprise of this old motif.
- Brief Alerts October 2018
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- Exclusions - New Legislation/New Demands to Come? North East Boost?
- Conviction for Unregistered School
- Cuts
- Obesity
- Teacher Regulation
- Race Pay Gap
- Catchment Areas
- Textbooks and content
- Salary cutoff
- Eton ban
- Budget
- And finally...
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