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Why SEND Could Be The Next Big Battle For The Government
Why SEND Could Be The Next Big Battle For The Government
Education
After a bruising effort to avoid a major rebellion over its welfare reforms, the government now faces the challenge of selling its plans for SEND to Labour backbenchers. 
Education Secretary Holding SEND Meetings With Labour MPs To Avoid Repeat Of Welfare Rebellion
Education
Education Secretary Holding SEND Meetings With Labour MPs To Avoid Repeat Of Welfare Rebellion
Public Expects To See Improvements In NHS, Schools And Housing Before The Next General Election
Health
Public Expects To See Improvements In NHS, Schools And Housing Before The Next General Election
Absent Minds: How To Solve The Crisis Of School Absenteeism?
Education
Absent Minds: How To Solve The Crisis Of School Absenteeism?
UK Student Interest In US Universities Falls Sharply
Education
UK Student Interest In US Universities Falls Sharply
Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott: “I See Smartphones As The Equivalent Of Giving Children Cigarettes'
Education
Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott: “I See Smartphones As The Equivalent Of Giving Children Cigarettes"
'Everything Has To Be On The Table' When It Comes To Student Finances, Says Shadow Chancellor
Education
"Everything Has To Be On The Table" When It Comes To Student Finances, Says Shadow Chancellor
Opinion
We must help future graduates excel by giving universities sustainable funding
Education
By Professor Malcolm Press
We must help future graduates excel by giving universities sustainable funding
Ministers must act now to make Child Trust Funds accessible for disabled children
Education
By Lord Blunkett and Sarah Smith MP
Ministers must act now to make Child Trust Funds accessible for disabled children
UEL’s blueprint for inclusive economic growth Partner content
Education
By University of East London
UEL’s blueprint for inclusive economic growth
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How Ruthless Will Starmer's Reshuffle Be?
How Ruthless Will Starmer's Reshuffle Be?
Political parties
Women in Westminster: In Conversation With Sharon Gaffka Partner content
Women in Westminster: In Conversation With Sharon Gaffka
By Total Politics Impact
Social affairs
When will Keir Starmer do his Cabinet reshuffle?
When will Keir Starmer do his Cabinet reshuffle?
By Jim Murphy
Political parties
Tory Councillors Launch Bid To Close Down Cheshire Asylum Hotel After Epping Ruling
Tory Councillors Launch Bid To Close Down Cheshire Asylum Hotel After Epping Ruling
Home affairs
Total Politics at the Labour Party Conference ##sash##
Total Politics at the Labour Party Conference
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Parliament's People Awards
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Inside The Special Educational Needs Crisis Forcing Councils Into Bankruptcy
Education
Inside The Special Educational Needs Crisis Forcing Councils Into Bankruptcy
A dramatic increase in children judged to have special educational needs has created another dysfunctional market driving councils into insolvency, reports Justine Smith
Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
Health
By Tali Fraser
Baroness Cass: 'I don't have time for keyboard warriors in their basements'
The Cass Review into NHS gender services for children opened up the national conversation on this controversial subject, and divided opinion. Its author, Baroness Cass, speaks to Tali Fraser about being newly introduced as a peer and how she responds to critics. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer
SEND Help: How to reform our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system
Education
By Matilda Martin
SEND Help: How to reform our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system
“Lose, lose, lose.” That is how former Conservative education secretary Gillian Keegan described the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England, widely described as broken.
Education news
Government In Talks With Unions, NHS Crisis Plans, Teachers Are Leaving Jobs
Health
Government In Talks With Unions, NHS Crisis Plans, Teachers Are Leaving Jobs
Leaders from a range of unions are meeting cabinet ministers today to discuss their positions ahead of further planned strikes across the health, education, and transport sectors.
All The Promises In Rishi Sunak's Big Vision Speech, And Which Have Been Made Before
Health
All The Promises In Rishi Sunak's Big Vision Speech, And Which Have Been Made Before
Rishi Sunak delivered a speech setting out his policy agenda as Prime Minister in east London today, including five key pledges which he asked the public to judge his premiership on.
Teachers Facing Staff Crisis Are 'Baffled' By Rishi Sunak's Maths Plans
Education
Teachers Facing Staff Crisis Are "Baffled" By Rishi Sunak's Maths Plans
Rishi Sunak’s plans for all pupils to continue maths education until the age of 18 have been described as “baffling” by a teachers' union, which has warned that schools do not have the staff to deliver it.
Partner content
Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IET responds to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s maths pledge
Rishi Sunak Asks Voters To Judge Him On 'Results' In First Major Speech Of 2023
Health
Rishi Sunak Asks Voters To Judge Him On "Results" In First Major Speech Of 2023
Rishi Sunak has set out five promises to the public in his first major speech of 2023, with the Prime Minister telling voters "we’re either delivering for you or we’re not".
Rishi Sunak To Give Big Vision Speech, Union Leader Wants 'Resolution' To Strikes, Labour MP Describes Hospital Work As 'Heartbreaking'
Education
Rishi Sunak To Give Big Vision Speech, Union Leader Wants "Resolution" To Strikes, Labour MP Describes Hospital Work As "Heartbreaking"
Rishi Sunak will insist that all pupils to study maths in some form until the age of 18 in a major new year speech setting out his priorities as Prime Minister, against a backdrop of strikes, crisis in the NHS and a soaring cost of living.
Engineering Kids’ Futures: How to tackle a £1.5 billion skills shortage Partner content
Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Engineering Kids’ Futures: How to tackle a £1.5 billion skills shortage
With economic growth at the epicentre of the current focus in Westminster, the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) officially launched a new report in front of parliamentarians, students and industry leaders earlier this month with recommendations on how the Government can help tackle the UK’s gaping engineering skills shortage.
Why we must do better for children in hospital schools
Health
By Maarten Crommelin
Why we must do better for children in hospital schools
When Faisal* walked through the doors of our school at the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospital, we only knew his name.
Like so many of our pupils, he had been admitted because of a mental health emergency and was too unwell to leave the ward. It took daily visits by our teachers to build trust and to work out what they could do to help.
St Louis Grammar School becomes first team from Northern Ireland to claim victory in Raytheon Technologies Quadcopter Challenge Partner content
Education
By Raytheon Technologies
St Louis Grammar School becomes first team from Northern Ireland to claim victory in Raytheon Technologies Quadcopter Challenge
Following months of pitching, preparation and flying, the Raytheon Technologies Quadcopter Challenge crowned Pollution Solution from St Louis Grammar School its 2022 winners last night after a nail-biting final at Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Partner content
Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Government urged to tackle £1.5bn engineering skills shortage through primary and secondary education drive
A new report endorsed by over 150 engineering leaders and celebrities, led by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), is today calling on government to help tackle the UK’s engineering skills shortage by embedding engineering into the current curriculum.
The Children and Families Act has failed to improve the lives of children and young people
Education
By Baroness Tyler of Enfield
The Children and Families Act has failed to improve the lives of children and young people
The Children and Families Act 2014 was envisaged as a landmark piece of legislation. Its impact was intended to be wide ranging, giving greater protection to vulnerable children, better support for children whose parents are separating, a new system to help children with special educational needs and disabilities and help for parents to balance work and family life.
Building the Workforce of Tomorrow: Why Investing in Green Jobs and Skills is Critical for the UK Partner content
Environment
By WSP
Building the Workforce of Tomorrow: Why Investing in Green Jobs and Skills is Critical for the UK
With the transition to net zero, new sectors, technologies and industries will emerge. But creating a workforce able to make the most of tomorrow’s opportunities demands action today. Ahead of the publication of their nationwide survey of young people’s views about their future careers, we spoke to leading engineering and environmental professional services consultancy WSP and EngineeringUK to find out more about the challenges of developing the skills and jobs needed to deliver a low-carbon future.
Strengthening the UK Life Sciences Environment Partner content
Health
By MSD
Strengthening the UK Life Sciences Environment
The UK's life sciences sector has unlocked potential for growth. Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Dr Natalie White PhD, Executive Clinical Research Director at MSD write about the need for industry-government collaboration and investment in the life sciences sector.
Nurses Announce Strike Days, Backbenchers Rebel Over Energy Policy, Apology For MP Christmas Party Guidelines
Health
Nurses Announce Strike Days, Backbenchers Rebel Over Energy Policy, Apology For MP Christmas Party Guidelines
Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have announced that they will strike for two days before Christmas, the latest profession to commit to industrial action over the winter. 
Partner content
Education
By Betting and Gaming Council
TWO THIRDS OF PUNTERS BELIEVE NANNY STATE SPENDING LIMITS ON BETTING WOULD SPARK A RISE IN GAMBLING BLACK MARKET
Compulsory spending limits on betting risks driving more people to the unsafe, unregulated gambling black market, say 67 per cent of punters.
The government must crack down on growing county lines child exploitation
Education
By Anne Longfield
The government must crack down on growing county lines child exploitation
Recently, I visited a community project on a housing estate where families told me they were being terrorised by a gang of boys, excluded from school, who were delivering a county line to an area about 80 miles away.
Education Secretary Can't Confirm That School Budgets Will Keep Up With Rising Costs
Education
Education Secretary Can't Confirm That School Budgets Will Keep Up With Rising Costs
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has suggested her department could see a real-terms budget cut when Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gives a major update on government spending in next week’s Autumn Statement.
We need targeted support for struggling readers in secondary schools
Education
By Amanda Spielman
We need targeted support for struggling readers in secondary schools
As children return to school after the half-term break, there will be much discussion in Westminster about the new and returning faces in government making decisions about the future of education.
Partner content
Education
By Equality and Human Rights Commission
Britain’s equality watchdog takes action to prevent hair discrimination in schools
Pupils should not be stopped from wearing their hair in natural Afro styles at school, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says in new guidance today (27 October).
Black History and the new Curriculum for Wales
Education
By Vaughan Gething
Black History and the new Curriculum for Wales
“This glorious land of liberty, freedom, and religious privilege.”
How can anyone be against safer gambling? Partner content
Education
By Betting and Gaming Council
How can anyone be against safer gambling?
This week is Safer Gambling Week when we come together to promote better education and awareness, encourage even more people to use safer gambling tools like deposit limits and time-outs, and crucially when we signpost the advice, support and help that’s available to anyone who may be struggling. From betting shops to bingo clubs, casinos and online operators, and for the first-time betting operators in Ireland and across Europe too, it is an incredible show of unity to promote safe betting and gaming.
Community, care and love: teaching Black British studies
Education
By Sofia Akel
Community, care and love: teaching Black British studies
What responsibility does an educator have in creating, curating and facilitating a space of learning?
The miniature donkeys helping people living with dementia one visit at a time Partner content
Health
By The National Lottery
The miniature donkeys helping people living with dementia one visit at a time
Last month was World Alzheimer’s Month, a global opportunity to raise awareness, increase support and demystify dementia. Community support is often a vital lifeline for people with dementia and their families, and comes in an array of different, and sometimes unexpected, forms.
The government needs to end anti-Blackness in UK schools
Education
By Ife Thompson
The government needs to end anti-Blackness in UK schools
The UK government must adopt a BlackCrit approach to racial justice within the education system
EventsAll
Total Politics at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference
2025
Bayview Suite 2
Total Politics at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference
Total Politics at the Labour Party Conference
2025
Room 4A and 4B
Total Politics at the Labour Party Conference
Total Politics at the Conservative Party Conference
2025
Derby Suite
Total Politics at the Conservative Party Conference
Parliament's People Awards
2026
The Palace of Westminster
Parliament's People Awards