The Education Brief: Saturday 24 May 2025 - Top stories include:

• Teachers are set for a 4% pay rise from September.

• The STRB wants every school to publish a flexible working policy.

• The House of Lords is flooding the government’s schools bill with amendments.

• Ofsted is quietly overhauling the toolkits behind its upcoming ‘report card’ inspection system.

This week’s deep dive: 

• The SEND System: Crisis, Reform, and the Path Forward

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

Watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-25neDdO9k

Listening - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/whats-in-the-curriculum-review-so-far/id1714972358?i=1000705810724

Reading - https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/the-opportunity-index/

AI Tool - https://connectsafely.org/

Music by Slo Pony