Education

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‘Collective power is where it’s at’: City Academy workers celebrate strike action successes

Union members at the east Bristol secondary school have achieved most of a series of asks from the academy trust that manages it, after announcing rolling walkouts. Workers say the action has brought staff together.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Reports

Police and council defend safeguarding app after calls to stop collecting info on vulnerable young people

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with councillor Christine Townsend on taking on the Merchant Venturers over educational inequality

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Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Reports

Funding reinstated for SEND charity at heart of council social media spying row

A charity representing parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities, which lost government funding after Bristol City Council withdrew its backing, has had the money restored in a major U-turn.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on raising the next generation through a nursery crisis, with local head teacher Sam Williams

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Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey
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Voices

‘Academic and support staff are suffering – it’s time for universities to dip into their rainy day funds’

Jeff Pocock

Reports

Progress on Bristol’s SEND failings but relationships with parents still troubled, inspectors find

Report by Ofsted and Care Quality Commission says now up to government to decide next steps, as inquiry into alleged social media spying looms.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Voices

‘Childcare costs prevent countless ambitious women from fulfilling their potential’

Across the UK, mums have been protesting against our broken childcare system. We need urgent change to enable women to work, train and progress in their jobs without constant pressure, a local nursery worker argues.

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Reports

As the childcare crisis fuels inequality for women and children, mums are demanding action

The childcare system is at breaking point both in Bristol and nationally, with mothers being forced out of the workforce as costs rise and provision shrinks.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Reports

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Charities distance themselves from council review into ‘spying’ on SEND parents’ social media

As councillors prepare to vote on an independent inquiry into alleged online surveillance of parents of children with special educational needs, third parties named in an internal report have challenged the council's narrative.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Features

‘We don’t want children leaving school illiterate’: how schools need to step up for dyslexic students

Mike Jones was bullied at school in the 1970s because he couldn't spell his name. Almost four decades later, he developed a program that now helps thousands of dyslexic children learn.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’, and why teachers may be on the picket lines soon, with educator Lana Crosbie

Lana Crosbie is a senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner with over 20 years’ experience teaching in schools.

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Aphra Evans, Neil Maggs and Adam Cantwell-Corn
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