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Issue 6.08

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Guide To Mobile Web Safety

With the capabilities of mobile phones increasing, children are using incredibly sophisticated smartphones as part of their daily mobile lives. What this means is that they have the ability to do much more in terms of communicating, socialising, playing, creating and publishing content. This new research by Carphone Warehouse and professor Tanya Byron looks into the mobile Web behaviour of 8 -15 year olds in the UK. Leadership Briefing 6.08 (68)

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Local Authority And School Expenditure On Education

This SFR by the Department for Education provides details on how local authorities spent their funding on education, children's services and social care responsibilities. It also includes the latest statistics on school balances. It shows that schools are reducing their spending as education funding cuts start to affect budgets. The document also reveals evidence of funding inequality between schools in different authorities and different places across the country, adding to calls to alter the current school funding formulae. Leadership Briefing 6.08 (68)

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Performance Tables 2011

The performance tables show that hundreds of secondary schools are failing to help pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve their full potential. Just one in 15 (6.5%) pupils starting secondary school in England ‘behind’ for their age goes on to get five good GCSEs including English and maths. The Department for Education data covers England's more than 5,000 secondary schools, with information broken down by pupil type. Leadership Briefing 6.08 (68)

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Inclusion Of 14-16 Qualifications From 2014

'Equivalent' qualifications are to be slashed from more than 3,175 to just 125, and all qualifications will have the same value in the tables. This follows recommendations made by Professor Alison Wolf last year, where she highlighted how the current Performance Table system creates perverse incentives for some schools to put pupils on courses which might boost their Performance Table positions. This publication reports on the inclusion of 14-16 qualifications from 2014. Leadership Briefing 6.08 (68)

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