schools - Hackney Citizen

Council delays left autistic boy without teaching for months

Watchdog orders Town Hall to pay £4,500 to the family for causing 'avoidable distress'

Author: Hackney Citizen

Record grades across Hackney as academies report best-ever GCSE results

Provisional figures put the borough above emerging national and London averages, the Town Hall says

Author: Hackney Citizen

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The end of 'the verbal cane' - Mossbourne's quiet U-turn on shouting

Teachers at two Mossbourne schools say shouting at pupils came with the job. The federation now vows to do its best to end it

Author: Hackney Citizen

More than 20 Hackney schools close early in heatwave

Headteachers across the borough have shortened the school day or shut entirely to protect pupils and staff. Parents are urged to check directly with schools

Author: Hackney Citizen

More than 20 Hackney schools close early in heatwave

'Not what was needed': Mossbourne Federation sparks backlash after setting out response to safeguarding review

The parent who collected testimonies for the review and a local councillor have hit out at 'disappointing' announcement

Author: Hackney Citizen

Opposition councillors slam 'lack of transparency' over 'harrowing' Mossbourne safeguarding review

They claim there has been no reassurance that changes are being made in the three months since the review was published

Author: Hackney Citizen

Opposition councillors slam 'lack of transparency' over 'harrowing' Mossbourne safeguarding review

Mossbourne's chair of trustees quits in first major shake-up at beleaguered academy chain

Henry Colthurst, who had been on the trust's board since 2014, resigned earlier this month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney’s safeguarding boss takes DfE advisor to task over ‘embarrassing’ criticism of Mossbourne review

Jim Gamble responds to Tom Bennett's blogpost that called the report a 'hit job'

Author: Hackney Citizen

Empty primary school poised to reopen as specialist facility for SEND children

Baden Powell school was closed by the council last year due to falling pupil numbers

Author: Hackney Citizen

Empty primary school poised to reopen as specialist facility for SEND children

Greens welcome Met’s removal of 371 school officers - but others brand it 'most catastrophic decision in keeping children safe'

Surveys revealed that 93 per cent of Londoners supported the presence of Safer Schools Officers in school buildings

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Lego, books and staff possessions 'dumped in landfill' as closed primary school 'gutted'

Staff at the school were reportedly told to box up and label their belongings - then the removal team came before they had a chance to collect them

Author: Hackney Citizen

A 'gutted' St Dominic's classroom days after closure

Council warned of ‘damaging’ school behaviour policies and ‘racism’ towards pupils

Town Hall reviewing behaviour policies in bid to bring down suspensions and exclusions

Author: Hackney Citizen