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NEWS: Ministers Urged To Extend Free Breakfast Club
As reported by The Guardian, charities push ministers to include special schools and alternative provisions in free breakfast club expansion, keep reading
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NEWS: Council reports surge in AP placements
As reported by CYP Now, government figures show an 82% increase in alternative provision placements and a 15.4% rise in free keep reading
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NEWS: New academy to aid vulnerable youth
As reported by BBC News, Sulis Academy, a new alternative provision in Bath and North East Somerset, aims to support keep reading
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NEWS: Rising demand sparks innovation in alternative provision
As reported by ASCL, capacity issues prompt innovation in online alternative provision, offering flexibility and quality support for students facing complex keep reading
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NEWS: SEND costs escalate, threatening council budgets
As reported by CYP Now, BCP council could accumulate a £92m deficit on its dedicated schools grant (DSG) by March 2025, warns a keep reading
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Persistent school absence among marginalised groups to be examined
The barriers to attending school experienced by children from marginalised groups will be examined in an Education Committee evidence session keep reading
Management & HR
How the two-tier education system crimalises black youth
A thinktank has claimed that a two-tier education system unfairly discriminates against black, working-class children A report by the Institute of Race keep reading
Management & HR
Alternative provision school aims to put pupils 'back on track'
A new alternative provision school in Hull has big plans for its pupils and the future The Hull Daily Mail keep reading
Leadership
Spotlight cast on PRUs as Education Committee inquiry continues
A Commons Education Select Committee inquiry into alternative provision – ongoing since September 21, 2017, and now receiving oral evidence – has keep reading