The Education Brief: 18 January 2025

18/01/2025 13 min

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Episode Synopsis

The Education Brief: Saturday 18 January 2025 - Top stories include:

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson spoke in front of the Education Committee.

The Confederation of School Trusts raised concerns over the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Sir Kevan Collins has been named lead non-executive board member for the DfE.

A new report from Headrest calls trust in Ofsted "almost irrecoverable."

The £10 million behaviour hubs programme, launched in 2021, will end in March.


This week’s deep dive: 

The HEP Inclusion and SEND Conference 2025


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=MnzmrFsBLO0
Listening - https://open.spotify.com/show/55VZfVNogPJRgarLDv9TDn
Reading - https://www.aft.org/ae/summer2018/willingham
AI Tool - https://smartdraftr.ai/

Music by Slo Pony