School financial self-assessment checklists The self-assessment checklist and Schools Financial Value Standards (SFVS) checklist helps academies and maintained schools check they are managing re... 30th Jan 2024
Ofsted Response – prevention of future deaths report Ofsted and the Department for Education have now responded to a report from the coroner who oversaw the inquest into headteacher Ruth Perry’s deat... 29th Jan 2024
Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy The DfE has published an update on the progress made so far on the 8 year Sustainability and Climate Change strategy published in April 2022, includin... 26th Jan 2024
Education estate net zero? The Government has admitted its school rebuilding programme alone won’t be enough to hit net-zero targets and vowed to publish its roadmap for makin... 25th Jan 2024
New interim Regional Director for the South West The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed a new interim regional director for the South West. Lucy Livings, currently deputy director of the So... 24th Jan 2024
School attendance – letter to governors and trustees Damian Hinds Minister for Schools has written to governors and trustees to ask them to support the Department for Education’s (DfE) new school atten... 22nd Jan 2024
Rural communities mental health The House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Rural Mental Health Report was published last year. The report covers many of the t... 18th Jan 2024
Pupil premium Increases from April 2024 The government has announced that pupil premium and service premium rates will increase from April 2024. From April 2024 the new rates for every prima... 17th Jan 2024
New Deputy Director, Education and Learning Devon County Council has just appointed an interim Deputy Director, Education and Learning who has already taken up his post. Ceri Morgan has been app... 16th Jan 2024
Are you a new chair, or an existing chair? For new chairs, existing chairs and chairs of committees The Devon Association of Governance (DAG) supports chairs by providing bespoke resources and ... 15th Jan 2024