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Disability discrimination in schools

What are your responsibilities and obligations towards pupils at your school who are disabled? Mark Blois discusses the relevant legislation and explains what you need to know and do

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When can parents educate their children at home?

Michael Segal looks at a legal case where the parents' religious beliefs demanded that their children have home schooling

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Guide to school employment tribunals

Schools that are properly prepared for employment tribunal hearings can minimise cost and maximise their likelihood of success, writes Tamara Ludlow

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Developing a pastoral team to improve your school

Problems with behaviour can be managed by building a pastoral team, with the help of an excellence cluster. So discovered headteacher John Viner in his second article in a series on bringing Drapers Mills Primary school out of special measures

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Governing bodies: helping schools be accountable

Does your governing body help your school remain accountable? Stephen Adamson looks at how to make sure this relationship works effectively

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Accidents at school: liability in terms of supervision

In a move away from strict liability in terms of accidents at school, the courts have said that they are sometimes nobody’s fault. Kris Lines explains

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Independent Safeguarding Authority: a new vetting and barring system

With the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) due to launch at the end of 2009, Chris Webb-Jenkins takes a look at the practical implications of the complete overhaul of our vetting and barring system

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Creating a primary school: amalgamation

A headteacher and a governor from Havering report on their experiences of amalgamating an infant school with the neighbouring junior school

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School bursars as heads?

Should we be encouraging school business managers and bursars to progress into headship? Ruth Bradbury, who speaks on financial management at schools, voices her thoughts on the subject, as do two School Financial Management readers

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Self-evaluation with parents

Mark Chaplin shares insight into how primary headteachers can design a questionnaire for parents that will help them carry out effective self-evaluation at their primary school

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