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By Larisa Brown
Political CorrespondentMr Williamson also hopes to
give an extra £800million to
sixth form and further educa-
tion colleges. Teachers would
get a pay rise, with starting
salaries up to £30,000 by 2022.
Headteachers would receive
stronger official backing for a
wide range of powers to
promote good behaviour.
These include being able to
‘search and confiscate items
from pupils (including mobile
phones)’ as well as to ban
mobiles and ‘suspend and
expel pupils’.
Other proposals include
backing for using ‘sanctions
and rewards’ and ‘reasonableforce’ as well as to ‘impose
same-day detentions’.
The document states: ‘This
Government backs headteach-
ers to improve behaviour and
will support them to create
safe and disciplined school
environments.’
The Department for Educa-
tion expects the public to
welcome ‘a harder narrative
on discipline’ but admits there
will be a backlash.
Left-wing campaigners
believe exclusions and other
disciplinary measures are
cruel and can even lead to
more children being groomedby gangs. It is understood the
success of the super-strict
Michaela free school in Wem-
bley, north-west London, in
GCSE results last week is
likely to be used by ministers
to promote the policies.
Meanwhile, four ‘behaviour
tsars’ are to be named, includ-
ing Charlie Taylor, chairman
of the Youth Justice Board for
England and Wales.
The paper, published in The
Guardian, also suggests offer-
ing academy trusts £24,
incentives to take over strug-
gling schools and a fresh push
to turn council-run schoolsinto academies. A new wave of
free schools is advocated, such
as for excluded pupils, and the
end of schools rated as ‘out-
standing’ being able to avoid
re-inspection for a decade.
It also voices concern over
the rising number of teaching
assistants. They are popular
with parents and teachers,
but previous analysis shows
the posts have taken much of
the extra money given to
schools since the 1990s.
A DfE spokesman said: ‘We
do not comment on leaks. We
will announce further infor-
mation in due course.’By Eleanor Harding
Education EditorSCHOOLS could be given
billions of pounds in new
funding and more help to
crack down on bad behaviour,
according to proposals leaked
yesterday.
Education Secretary Gavin
Williamson wants to hand out an
extra £3.5billion and also provide
additional support for teachers
to ban mobile phones and
exclude poorly-behaved pupils.
The proposals, contained in a brief-
ing document marked ‘official-sensi-
tive’ and dated August 22, would be
subject to negotiation between No
and the Treasury.
But if they go ahead, the changes
could prove popular with parents
and teachers in the run-up to any
possible autumn election.
The funding boost would mean an
extra £2.8billion for primary and
secondary schools, including
£800million for children with special
educational needs.TENANTS will be able to buy tiny shares
of their homes every year under plans
announced by ministers to help thou-
sands step onto the housing ladder.
Renters will be permitted to purchase
as little as 1 per cent a year of the value
of the property they live in, as part of the
new model for shared ownership.
Currently, shared owners buy a slice of
the home they live in – usually between
a quarter and three quarters of the full
price – and pay rent on the rest.
They can then buy additional stakeseach year up to the point when they
own the house or flat outright, in a
process known as ‘staircasing’.
But current rules mean they have to
buy shares in 10 per cent chunks, mean-
ing on a £50,000 property this could
be as much as £5,000 a time. This can
make it prohibitively expensive to
increase equity, especially if the prop-
erty’s value has risen. Housing Secre-tary Robert Jenrick said the ‘radical
changes’ would ‘make it simpler and
easier for tens of thousands trying to
buy their own home’.
But MP Sarah Jones, Labour’s housing
spokesman, said: ‘Tinkering with the
details of shared ownership is meaning-
less when lack of investment from gov-
ernment means low cost homes for
ownership simply aren’t getting built.’
The Government has also announced
it will make it easier to take out a mort-
gage as part of its changes to the HelpPay off shared house in 1% chunks
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