The government has announced details of school funding for 2013-14 via a ministerial statement from education minister David Laws.

The government has announced that the Dux awards scheme, aimed at rewarding academic performance and encouraging aspiration, will be expanded next year.

The DfE is urging schools to take action against teachers working to rule.

The National Childminder Association has hit back at Ofsted’s claims, in their early years annual report and first early years annual lecture, that childminders are not capable of delivering all aspects of the EYFS.