Jan 16 2026 | News
A major teaching union has called for the government to ban access to social media platforms for children and young people under 16, to ‘prevent further damage to mental health and improve concentration and learning in school’. A meeting of the NASUWT’s national...
Jan 16 2026 | News
The government has announced £200million of funding for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) training, which it says will be available to ‘all teaching staff’. The SEND code of practice will also be updated with an expectation that all staff in ‘every...
Jan 9 2026 | News
From this summer GCSE students will be able to access their results via a new government app. However, pupils will still go into school on results day to meet face-to-face with their teachers and receive their results, with those results then subsequently being...
Jan 9 2026 | News
Ofsted inspections of Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) could begin as soon as next year, after education secretary Bridget Phillipson tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would enable them. At the last election the government had...
Jan 2 2026 | News
Teachers and leaders from schools and trusts in the region covered by Greensheets featured in this year’s New Year Honours list. William Smith, chief executive officer and founder of the Greenshaw Learning Trust (GLT) was awarded an OBE for services to education. The...
Jan 2 2026 | News
The new year sees the official start of the National Year of Reading 2026. This will be the third National Year of Reading, following previous ones in 1998 and 2008, however it is the first in an era of smartphones, streaming and AI. It has been commissioned by the...
