Local authorities are at the forefront of providing eduction services for their communities and supporting some of the most vulnerable children in society.
On Tuesday the annual LGA conference begins. This year they are in Birmingham. Merrick Cockell will be confirmed as the new chair of the organisation, taking over from Baroness Eaton.
John Fowler takes a sceptical look at the DfE's transparency website.
Michael Barber, Tony Blair’s former chief education advisor and new joiner at Edexcel, is profiled in yesterday’s Education Guardian. The picture on the front page sums up the man brilliantly: he’s wearing the sharp suit and crisp white shirt that’s standard issue for a top-drawer consultant, but with a couple of reassuringly school-teacherly touches (thick-soled,…
Prof. Alison Wolf (Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College, London) was asked last year by the Secretary of State for Education to review how to improve vocational education for 14-19 year olds and thereby promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher education and training routes. Her report (covered in a…
The Government has accepted all the recommendations of the Wolf Review of vocational education. Its response describes a programme of significant reform, and indicates a timetable for implementation between now and September 2012.
The final report from the Munro Review of Child Protection sets out 15 recommendations aimed at reforming the child protection system from being over bureaucratic and concerned with process compliance to being child-centred, with a focus on provision of effective help.
The Review of Education Capital (pdf), led by Sebastian James was originally intended to produce an interim report in September, with a forward plan for the funding period by the end of 2010; that seems an unrealistic timescale, and it has taken much longer – in part to enable some piloting of emerging findings. Nobody will…
The SEN and disability Green Paper: Support and Aspiration sets out for consultation a wide range of proposals aimed at creating a radically different system to support better life outcomes for the two million children and young people with a special education need or disability.
Prof. Alison Wolf (Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College, London) has conducted a review on how to improve vocational education for 14-19 year olds and thereby promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher education and training routes. The review considered all formal qualifications for the 14-19 phase which include vocational…
This article was first published by Children & Young People Now. How does a child make the journey from needing to receiving? From abuse and neglect to real and effective protection and care? This harrowing but vitally important problematic is addressed in The Child’s Journey, a second offering from Professor Eileen Munro’s review of child protection.…
