Government Funding

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The government has been urged to provide urgent clarity for schools, amid uncertainty over the continuation of the £320 million PE and sport premium. Forty influential charities and sporting organisa

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Tailored mental health and wellbeing support for headteachers across England could soon be available under new plans from the Department for Education. According to an early engagement noti

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Councils across England will share a multi-million funding pot to help pupils travel to school safely from September, the government has announced. The Department for Education set aside £4

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The government has created a £10 million fund to help families provide home education support if their children have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In addition, ministe

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Schools minister Nick Gibb has promised £5 million to extend cultural education schemes for the next academic year in both primary school and secondary school. All of the schemes focus on d

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Schools are to receive £350 million of additional funding to provide support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the government has announced. Under the new pl

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More than £10 million will be pumped into the development of programmes designed to recruit and retrain business leaders and PhD graduates in readiness for teaching, the government has annou

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New measures to identify and support underperforming schools in England are in the pipeline, the government has announced. Schools minister Lord Agnew has unveiled proposals designed to simp

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Education secretary Damian Hinds has unveiled plans to divert £24 million to boost teacher training and drive school improvements in the north east. The move comes amid fears that pupils in

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The government has set aside a multi-million fund to entice more ‘career changers’ into teaching in a bid to boost recruitment and retention. A total of £13.5 million will be available for a

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Twenty local authorities can bid for a portion of a £50 million funding pot to aid the creation of new schools, the government has announced. These areas are deemed to be those with the grea

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Young people across North Yorkshire will benefit from a range of new projects designed to boost learning and access to extra-curricular activities, the Department for Education has revealed.