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Amazing to think that SB thinks it's cruel to add 20% to private fees, which will be reclaimable by LAs if a child has a EHCP or is placed by them, but it's not cruel to have not increased the place funding for a decade and allow LAs to build up high needs debts so reducing the…

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It's 9 o'clock...
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School, prison or hospital...

Really do question the intelligence and business acumen of those in the central team who did this.... who are probably paid quite well for their business acumen.

I am not against company cars where they can be substantiated and are fair, although does highlight my point about…

Why does he have a concern on Oaks independence but not Ofsted which has been seen to be influenced by government.

Is it because he has services he wants to sell which Oak is providing without his Trusts input and Ofsted has enabled him to grow the empire?

#hypocrisy …

Headteachers be like 'I hate one word Ofsted judgements. I know we need an independent organisation reviewing schools but one word judgements are so unfair; schools are too complicated to be judged by one word, which often doesn't tell the full story'

Same Headteachers on…

I think this stat probably says more about the schools and the respective LAs.

Lack of funding and lack of resources no doubt plays a part, but from personal experience, individual staff bias and empathy play a part.

Also, question Equality Act.... I do wonder, with new stats…

'Larger Mats, with 10 or more schools, also have higher rates of persistent pupil absence, suspension and unexplained departures than smaller Mats and local authority schools on average, according to the Education Policy Institute (EPI) analysis'. Guardian Education

Is this really…

'I have always been clear that headteachers are best placed to make decisions in their school' - interesting statement.

On the day when The Guardian published a piece about #MAT & #AcademyTrusts having higher turnover than maintained schools.

An unintended admission that…

I always remember the super heads, where HTs were said stupid money to turn around schools, with total disregard of money

Like these super heads I can see these turbo charged salaries being the death kneel of MATs. Some e of these salaries are obscene, even surpassing the pay…

'Despite this, special and AP schools “will continue to be eligible to receive it as part of a single-school conversion process”.'

Ask yourself why, why encourage SEN & APs to become Academies.

It actually makes zero sense for them them to be academies since there are always in…

A thread on some legislation that impacts schools.... so when someone asks how complicated are school, here you go.....

'Copyrights and Rights in Performances (Quotation and Parody) Regulations' anyone?

Personal fines?