Cerys Turner

@cerysturner7

Senior reporter @tes, covering Ofsted, unions, curriculum, teacher training & AI. Former @cityjournalism, ✍🏻 The Times, Big Issue, Metro (pronounced Keh-Riss)

London via Somerset tes.com/magazine/autho… Joined September 2019

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner7 1h

Excl: Malicious links to violent porn and activist groups have been discovered on more than 5000 school websites.

The DfE has been urged to support schools to better audit their sites to prevent similar incidents happening in the future:

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www.tes.com Malicious links discovered on thousands of school websites Findings shared exclusively with Tes reveal that pornographic and violent content is being inadvertently linked to school websites

Cerys Turner @cerysturner7 5d

Lucy Powell has just confirmed that DfE will publish the following “very early” in the new year:

- SEND bill
- Govt response to SEND reforms consultation
- National inclusion standards

After key SEND advisor hinted at delay yday ⬇️

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www.tes.com SEND reform bill unlikely to be published until new year Government adviser suggests bill will be published early in 2027 and also says the DfE is considering how it can create a curriculum ‘that young people can succeed in’

Cerys Turner @cerysturner7 6d

Despite being awarded a 6.5% pay rise over two years, inflation is set to wipe out almost all of the teacher pay rise.

📉 Analysis from @JabedAhm shows the rise will amount to just 0.06% in real-terms.

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www.tes.com Nearly all of teacher pay rise set to be wiped out by inflation Tes analysis of new OBR forecasts suggests the two-year pay deal will deliver almost no real-terms increase, as school leaders warn rising costs are undermining budgets

Cerys Turner @cerysturner7 Nov 2

If this sounds familiar, it’s likely because something similar is already happening at NHS England.

Its federated data platform is ran by Palantir to centralise fragmented hospital data - much like what the DfE hopes to do with schools & trusts.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

www.theguardian.com Palantir patient data tech rejected by many NHS trusts in England Exclusive: health bodies across country say controversial US firm’s data platform no better than systems already in use

Cerys Turner @cerysturner7 Oct 28

The data spine, first proposed by the DfE in the schools White Paper, could see the data of millions of school aged children & adults who work with them stored centrally via management information systems.

Sir Jon called it an “extraordinary overreach”.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner7 Oct 28

Excl: The leader of the country’s largest MAT has called plans to create a
data spine the “most concerning thing to come from government on education” in his memory.

@JonColes01 warns that the major infrastructure project could lead to “legal challenges” if it goes ahead.