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Five inspection trends

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted’s latest annual report highlights changes in performance among early years, education and social care providers, and the quality of services they deliver. Jo Stephenson analyses the key emerging trends.

Learning Through Play, USA

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Experiencing abuse or neglect can hinder the development of executive function skills, which children need in order to filter distractions, prioritise tasks, and control impulses.

Making the case for personalised learning

    Features
  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Personalised learning approaches, often using the latest technology, improve the attainment of disadvantaged children, but critics are concerned it narrows the curriculum, finds Charlotte Goddard.

Character Education: Special Report

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Policymakers, educators and children's professionals are developing new ways to help young people learn and hone the positive character traits they need to overcome life's challenges and be good citizens.

Character Education: Policy context

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
At the recent Conservative annual conference, Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan reiterated her party's commitment to a wide-ranging character education agenda.

Schools and knife crime: Inspections Clinic

    Features
  • Monday, September 23, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Rising levels of youth violence have shone a light on what schools are doing to keep children safe and educate them about the dangers. Jo Stephenson reports on the findings of a London research project.

Speech and language: The 30 million word gap

According to one influential piece of research, disadvantaged children hear 30 million fewer words than their peers. Early years expert James Hempsall explores efforts to address the language gap.

Special Report: Apprenticeships

The government has a goal to create at least three million apprenticeships by 2020, with many of these placements being targeted at vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of young people, writes Derren Hayes.

Apprenticeships: Policy context

    Features
  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • | CYP Now
As part of a wider drive to improve the status of vocational training, successive governments in recent years have developed policies to boost the number and quality of apprenticeship places.

Special Report: Narrowing the Attainment Gap

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The gap between disadvantaged children and better-off peers is narrowing slowly, but policymakers are developing innovative programmes to boost the academic achievement of those struggling at school.

Inspecting 'off-rolling'

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted has found evidence that a significant minority of schools are finding ways to manage more challenging pupils out. New tools will make it easier to identify this practice, says Jo Stephenson.

Inspections Clinic: School careers guidance

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 28, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Following the launch of the government's Careers Strategy earlier this year, there are a raft of new requirements for providing careers advice and guidance that schools must meet from September.

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