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A “chronic shortage” of educational psychologists must be addressed before the government can achieve its aim to make mainstream schools more inclusive for pupils with special educational needs, a new report warns.

The new Ofsted grading language has only just landed, yet you can already sense familiar habits beginning to re-emerge. Following consultation, Ofsted revised the terminology of its five-grade scale - the grades are now “urgent improvement”, “needs attention”, “expected standard”, “strong standard” and “exceptional” - because the originally proposed wording simply didn’t sit right with parents or professionals. But as we all know, changing labels is the easy part.

Scrap smart uniforms, say nearly half of secondary teachers An increased focus on inclusion and cost means some schools are revising their uniform policies. But teachers are divided and leaders are less convinced of the need for change, exclusive polling reveals

Those of us who work in schools cannot always know what is happening in a child’s life. Even with the best safeguarding and home-link structures in place, we cannot identify every child who may need us more than others. However, what we are in control of is building schools that are safe by design - where every child, regardless of what we know about them, has the chance to thrive and to know that they belong. I know from personal experience how much that can matter.

What if improving children’s reading were as easy as turning on television subtitles? The campaign group Turn on the Subtitles claims that this simple act can double a child’s chance of becoming a good reader. It’s a message that has been amplified by celebrity influencers, including Stephen Fry and Jack Black. “They’ll learn to read without even realising it,” says Black, in a TikTok video with 5.3 million views.