research in practice

1. extended schools
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2. schools
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3. Partnerships for Schools
(Glossary)

**Partnerships for Schools** (PfS) is responsible for delivering the government's secondary school renewal programme, Building Schools for the Future (BSF) In 2006 PfS also took on responsibility for ...

4. PfS
(Glossary)

**Partnerships for Schools** is responsible for delivering the government's secondary school renewal programme, Building Schools for the Future (BSF) In 2006 PfS also took on responsibility for delivering ...

5. Academies
(Glossary)

Academies are all-ability, state-funded schools established and managed by sponsors from a wide range of backgrounds, including high performing schools and colleges, universities, individual philanthropists, ...

6. DCSF
(Glossary)

**Department for Children, Schools and Families** Government department responsible for all issues affecting people up to the age of 19 including child protection and education. Replaced disbanded DfES ...

7. Anti-Bullying Good Practice in Community Settings: A research led national perspective - 10 May 2011
(Events Calendar/Anti-Bullying Good Practice in Community Settings: A research led national perspective)

This workshop is for those working with young people in community settings and schools who are concerned about reducing bullying behaviour and practitioners and policy-makers and those with strategic responsibility ...

8. Anti-Bullying Good Practice in Community Settings: A research led national perspective - 16 February 2011
(Events Calendar/Anti-Bullying Good Practice in Community Settings: A research led national perspective)

This workshop is for those working with young people in community settings and schools who are concerned about reducing bullying behaviour and practitioners and policy-makers and those with strategic responsibility ...

9. Schools and Communities Knowledge Workshop - 13 May 2010
(Events Calendar/Schools and Communities Knowledge Workshop)

10. Schools and Communities Knowledge Workshop - 11 May 2010
(Events Calendar/Schools and Communities Knowledge Workshop)

11. Exclusion from Maintained Schools, Academies and Pupil Referral Units in England: A guide for those with legal responsibilities in relation to exclusion
(Research & Policy Updates/initiatives)

This guidance from the Department for Education provides a guide to the legislation that will govern the exclusion of pupils from maintained schools, Academy and Free Schools, pupil referral units and ...

12. After the Riots: The final report of the Riots Communities and Victims Panel
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... Among a raft of other recommendations, the panel calls for schools to develop policies on ‘building character’ and for Ofsted to undertake a thematic review on character building. The report also calls ...

13. Revision of The Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2010
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

This consultation from the Department for Education seeks views on various amendments to the regulations governing standards to be met by independent schools. Its main objective is to make substantive ...

14. School Funding Reform: Next steps towards a fairer system
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... funding high needs pupils in Academies and Free Schools; and to avoid ‘bureaucratic processes’ getting in the way of dialogue between the commissioner and provider about the pupil or student. The reforms ...

15. Proposed Changes to Allow Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) from September 2012
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... from mainstream schools to benefit from the training that the best PRUs can offer, especially in the handling of behavioural problems. The government is also proposing that PRUs and AP (Alternative Provision) ...

16. Review of Alternative Provision
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... ensure that schools are fully represented on the management committees of PRUs amending regulations to allow pupils directed to alternative provision to stay there as long as is necessary (current regulations ...

17. 'They Never Give Up on You': Office of the Children's Commissioner School Exclusions Inquiry
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

This report from Dr Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England, sets out the findings from her eight-month inquiry into school exclusions from state-funded schools. The inquiry panel examined ...

18. Improving Alternative Provision
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... be shared between schools and providers so that 'clear and realistic' plans can be drawn up with 'baselines against which to measure progress', the review says. In all the review sets out 28 recommendations, ...

19. New Statutory Guidance for the Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) in England
(Research & Policy Updates/consultations)

... is inviting comments on the new statutory guidance for those providing statutory induction. The proposals are intended to reduce prescription and give schools greater flexibility to exercise their own ...

20. 'Reflections on Child Welfare Research and the Policy Process: Virtual School Heads and the Education of Looked After Children', David Berridge, British Journal of Social Work, 42, 2012
(Research & Policy Updates/articles)

... educational support system for LAC, and improving their attainment. The children attend various schools and the VSH holds to account those providing services. VSHs are responsible for three groups of ...