Mobile phone ban: government set to make guidance statutory

Campaigners call for schools to go beyond ‘not seen, not heard’ policies Mobile phones are set to be effectively banned in schools, as the government looks to make existing guidance statutory. Speaking in the House of Lords, education minister Baroness Jacqui Smith...

Charity says SEND reforms overlook developmental language disorder

Speech and Language UK want better training and more specialists A speech and language charity are calling on the government to revisit their plans for SEND reform, claiming that the existing proposals overlook children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). DLD...

New food standards could see fewer children choosing school meals

Pilot sees 15 per cent drop in uptake, and costs rise There are concerns that the government’s new school food standards, designed to promote healthier eating, may prove counterproductive after a pilot saw uptake of school meals decline. Earlier this week the DfE...