The Education Brief: Saturday 17 May 2025 - Top stories include:

• Labour has torn into the Conservatives’ £70 million SEND improvement plan for being too little.

• The government is merging its behaviour and attendance hubs into a single support scheme.

• School-based mental health teams will be expanded to nearly a million more pupils by 2026.

• SEND sport is getting a boost with a three-year extension of its inclusion initiative.

This week’s deep dive: 

• Opportunity in London… and Beyond

We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!

Watching - https://steplab.co/watch/great-teaching-unpacked-episode-2-teaching-behaviour

Listening - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m002bswl

Reading - https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/best-practice/adaptive-teaching-explained-what-why-and-how

AI Tool - https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_uk

Music by Slo Pony