Archived government news
January 2025
Guidance: Senior mental health lead training Tuesday, 07 January 2025
Guidance: Promoting and supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools a… Tuesday, 07 January 2025
Guidance: Academy trusts: off-payroll appointments Tuesday, 07 January 2025
Transparency data: Independent special schools and post-16 institutions Monday, 06 January 2025
Guidance: Providing supported internships for young people with an EHC plan Monday, 06 January 2025
Find a school census code: applicable from August 2024 Friday, 03 January 2025
Complete the school census Friday, 03 January 2025
Data items 2024 to 2025 Friday, 03 January 2025
Data items Friday, 03 January 2025
Changes from the previous AP census Friday, 03 January 2025
Alternative provision census Friday, 03 January 2025
Transparency data: Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF) award recipients Friday, 03 January 2025
Guidance: Flexi-job apprenticeships using an approved agency Thursday, 02 January 2025
Guidance: Elective home education and children missing education: submit yo… Thursday, 02 January 2025
December 2024
Transparency data: Providers delivering Higher Technical Qualifications Friday, 27 December 2024
Guidance: Department for Education non-executive appointments Monday, 23 December 2024
Guidance: School census 2024 to 2025: technical information Monday, 23 December 2024
Guidance: Find, join or create a network for school business professionals Friday, 20 December 2024
Guidance: Alternative provision census: technical specification Friday, 20 December 2024
Guidance: Agency child and family social workers: data return and price cap… Friday, 20 December 2024
Guidance: Department for Education non-executive appointments Friday, 20 December 2024
Guidance: Early years qualifications achieved in the United Kingdom Friday, 20 December 2024
Transparency data: Independent special schools and post-16 institutions Friday, 20 December 2024
Guidance: Monitor your school attendance: user guide Thursday, 19 December 2024
Transparency data: Local authority interactive tool (LAIT) Thursday, 19 December 2024
Guidance: School-Based Nursery Capital Grant Thursday, 19 December 2024
Closed consultation: Our plan to improve the lives of people with ME/CFS (e… Thursday, 19 December 2024
Consultation outcome: Improving the experiences of people with ME/CFS: inte… Thursday, 19 December 2024
Official Statistics: National Tutoring Programme 2023 to 2024 Thursday, 19 December 2024
Official Statistics: Pupil attendance in schools Thursday, 19 December 2024
Correspondence: Notice to improve: Furness College Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Guidance: National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2025 … Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Data protection in schools Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Sharing personal data Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Transparency data: List of family hub sites Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Guidance: Adult skills fund: guidance for devolved authorities Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Guidance: Adult skills fund: guidance for providers Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Policy paper: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Transparency data: Rural primary schools designation Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Guidance: Apply for Department for Education (DfE) personal data Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Transparency data: Department for Education gender pay gap 2024 Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Research: Evaluation of Skills Bootcamps: 2021 to 2022 completions and outc… Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Research: Evaluation of Skills Bootcamps: wave 2 implementation report Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Research: Climate literacy amongst school leavers Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Transparency data: Non-consolidated performance-related payments (NCPRP) Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Decision: FE Commissioner intervention: Warwickshire College Group 2024 Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Legislation breaks down barriers to opportunity for all children Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Legislation breaks down barriers to opportunity for all children Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Press release: Skills for growth top agenda for business leaders and govern… Monday, 16 December 2024
Transparency data: Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templat… Monday, 16 December 2024
Transparency data: Rural primary schools designation Monday, 16 December 2024
Guidance: Funding for national professional qualifications (NPQs) Monday, 16 December 2024
Guidance: Special educational needs co-ordinator's (SENCO) national profess… Monday, 16 December 2024
Guidance: Leading primary mathematics national professional qualification Monday, 16 December 2024
Guidance: Early headship coaching offer Monday, 16 December 2024
Guidance: Help and support for colleges Friday, 13 December 2024
Notice: Notice to improve: Northern Ambition Academies Trust Friday, 13 December 2024
Guidance: Academies accounts return Friday, 13 December 2024
Guidance: Early years census: technical specification Friday, 13 December 2024
Transparency data: List of declared subcontractors for post-16 education an… Thursday, 12 December 2024
Guidance: Join the risk protection arrangement (RPA) for schools Thursday, 12 December 2024
Independent report: Risk protection arrangement (RPA) summary provisioning … Thursday, 12 December 2024
Press release: Courses key to government growth mission will stay Thursday, 12 December 2024
Guidance: Review of level 3 qualifications reform: provisional outcomes Thursday, 12 December 2024
Impact assessment: Review of level 3 qualifications reform: equality impact… Thursday, 12 December 2024
Corporate report: CITB annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 Thursday, 12 December 2024
Guidance: Offer a teacher degree apprenticeship Thursday, 12 December 2024
Consultation outcome: Improving support for children missing education Thursday, 12 December 2024
Official Statistics: Elective home education: autumn term 2024 Thursday, 12 December 2024
Accredited official statistics: Primary school performance tables: 2024 Thursday, 12 December 2024
Official Statistics: Children missing education: autumn term 2024 Thursday, 12 December 2024
Speech: Minister Jacqui Smith speech to Holex network conference Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Guidance: Apply to the APAR as an apprenticeship training provider Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Guidance: Support your apprentice through end-point assessment Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Guidance: Removal from the apprenticeship provider and assessment register Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Guidance: Apprenticeship provider and assessment register: conditions of ac… Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Guidance: End-point assessment organisation guide to assessing apprenticesh… Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Guidance: NCCIS management information requirement Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Policy paper: Evidence to the STRB: 2025 pay award for teachers and leaders Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Step up to social work Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Special educational needs person level survey 2025: guide Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Further education corporations and sixth-form college corporation… Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and data protection in schools Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Data protection in schools Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Resources to support data protection in schools Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Record keeping and management Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Press release: Over £2 billion boost to secure expansion in early education Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Research: Survey of Adult Skills 2023: national report for England Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Early years funding Section 251 data: 2024 to 2025 Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Oak National Academy independent review: process and terms of ref… Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Establishing school-based nursery provision Monday, 09 December 2024
Guidance: School-Based Nursery Capital Grant Monday, 09 December 2024
Guidance: Flexi-job apprenticeships using an approved agency Monday, 09 December 2024
Guidance: Department for Education non-executive appointments Monday, 09 December 2024
Transparency data: Free schools and UTCs: successful applications Friday, 06 December 2024
Guidance: Department for Education non-executive appointments Friday, 06 December 2024
Changes for 2024 to 2025 Friday, 06 December 2024
Complete the school census Friday, 06 December 2024
Data items 2024 to 2025 Friday, 06 December 2024
Transparency data: New school proposals Friday, 06 December 2024
Research: Capital advisers programme: part 2 evaluation Thursday, 05 December 2024
Guidance: Secondary accountability measures (including Progress 8 and Attai… Thursday, 05 December 2024
Guidance: Move to the UK if you’re coming from Ukraine Thursday, 05 December 2024
Official Statistics: Pupil attendance in schools Thursday, 05 December 2024
Official Statistics: Initial teacher training: trainee number census 2024 t… Thursday, 05 December 2024
Accredited official statistics: Secondary school performance data in Englan… Thursday, 05 December 2024
Accredited official statistics: Key stage 4 performance 2024 Thursday, 05 December 2024
Transparency data: DfE external data shares Thursday, 05 December 2024
Buying for schools: how to buy what you need Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Writing and managing a contract Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Guidance: Buy musical instruments, equipment and technology Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Research: Engagement with the Maths Hubs Programme Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Guidance: Finding an end-point assessment organisation Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Independent report: Herefordshire children’s services: commissioner’s repor… Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Guidance: Flexi-job apprenticeships using an approved agency Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Transparency data: Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templat… Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Policy paper: Further education LGPS guarantee Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Guidance: Subject knowledge enhancement: an introduction Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Research: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2023: Engla… Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Guidance: Copyright licences for state schools in England Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Guidance: 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Guidance: Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Guidance: Subject knowledge enhancement (SKE): course directory Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Correspondence: Closed notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form College Monday, 02 December 2024
Guidance: Submit a school land transaction proposal Monday, 02 December 2024
Press release: T Level placements reformed to open up new qualification Monday, 02 December 2024
November 2024
Guidance: 14 to 19 technical and applied qualifications: technical guidance Friday, 29 November 2024
Form: Initial teacher training (ITT) accreditation: expression of interest Friday, 29 November 2024
Guidance: Summer born children: advice for admission authorities Thursday, 28 November 2024
Transparency data: DfE: business appointment rules advice Thursday, 28 November 2024
Research: Childcare and early years survey of parents: push-to-web trial Thursday, 28 November 2024
Research: Behavioural insights: increasing uptake of family hub services Thursday, 28 November 2024
Research: Labour market outcomes: impact of ethnicity, SES and SEN Thursday, 28 November 2024
Transparency data: Higher education providers with T Levels in entry requir… Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: School census 2024 to 2025: technical information Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: Postgraduate teaching apprenticeships: funding manual Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: School Direct (salaried): funding manual Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: Initial teacher training (ITT) bursary: funding manual Thursday, 28 November 2024
Winners of the 2024 National Apprenticeship and Skills Awards Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2025 … Thursday, 28 November 2024
Policy paper: National funding formula for schools and high needs: 2025 to … Thursday, 28 November 2024
Transparency data: Schools block national funding formula: split sites fund… Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: Early years qualifications achieved in the United Kingdom Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: Early years foundation stage profile handbook Thursday, 28 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: Education and training statistics for the U… Thursday, 28 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2024 (p… Thursday, 28 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: Early years foundation stage profile result… Thursday, 28 November 2024
Official Statistics: Further education outcomes: 2021 to 2022 Thursday, 28 November 2024
Transparency data: Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templat… Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Guidance: Submit a school land transaction proposal Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Transparency data: Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templat… Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Press release: Schools urged to sign up for free breakfast club rollout Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Guidance: Breakfast clubs early adopters scheme Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Guidance: Academies land and buildings collection tool Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Policy paper: Get Britain Working White Paper Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Guidance: Early years financial incentives Monday, 25 November 2024
Transparency data: Local authority interactive tool (LAIT) Friday, 22 November 2024
Guidance: Initial teacher training reform funding guidance Friday, 22 November 2024
Guidance: Offer a trainee teacher placement Friday, 22 November 2024
Statutory guidance: Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting… Friday, 22 November 2024
3. Set up or join an academy trust Friday, 22 November 2024
Convert to an academy: guide for schools Friday, 22 November 2024
Guidance: Pupil referral units: converting to alternative provision academi… Friday, 22 November 2024
Guidance: Flexible working in schools Thursday, 21 November 2024
Policy paper: Tuition fees and student support: 2025 to 2026 academic year Thursday, 21 November 2024
Research: Evaluation of the behaviour hubs programme: interim report Thursday, 21 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in Eng… Thursday, 21 November 2024
Official Statistics: Pupil attendance in schools Thursday, 21 November 2024
Official Statistics: Multiplication tables check attainment: 2024 Thursday, 21 November 2024
Speech: Minister McKinnell speech at Schools and Academies Show 2024 Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Policy paper: Regional Care Co-operatives: pathfinder areas Monday, 18 November 2024
Correspondence: Safeguarding children with disabilities in residential sett… Monday, 18 November 2024
Independent report: Children with complex needs who are deprived of liberty Monday, 18 November 2024
Policy paper: Keeping children safe, helping families thrive Monday, 18 November 2024
Guidance: Special free school revenue funding Monday, 18 November 2024
Guidance: Mainstream free school revenue funding Monday, 18 November 2024
Guidance: Alternative provision free school revenue funding Monday, 18 November 2024
Guidance: 16 to 19 free school revenue funding Monday, 18 November 2024
Guidance: Establishing school-based nursery provision Monday, 18 November 2024
Guidance: School-Based Nursery Capital Grant Monday, 18 November 2024
Guidance: Children’s social work workforce: guide Monday, 18 November 2024
Press release: Biggest overhaul in a generation to children’s social care Monday, 18 November 2024
Transparency data: Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templat… Friday, 15 November 2024
Notice: Notice to improve: Sikh Academies Trust Friday, 15 November 2024
Guidance: School workforce census: guides Friday, 15 November 2024
Transparency data: Free schools and UTCs: successful applications Friday, 15 November 2024
Guidance: Children’s social work workforce census: technical specification Thursday, 14 November 2024
Official Statistics: Higher-level learners in England: 2022 to 2023 Thursday, 14 November 2024
Open consultation: Teachers’ Pension Scheme regulations: 2024 proposed amen… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Guidance: Share your daily school attendance data Thursday, 14 November 2024
Guidance: Monitor your school attendance: user guide Thursday, 14 November 2024
Guidance: Access your school attendance data Thursday, 14 November 2024
Transparency data: Skills Bootcamps: starts 2022 to 2023 Thursday, 14 November 2024
Guidance: Special educational needs person level survey 2025: guide Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Speech: Skills Minister's keynote address to the Association of Colleges Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Guidance: Supply Skills Bootcamps Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Sign in to your childcare account Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Guidance: Department for Education non-executive appointments Monday, 11 November 2024
Guidance: Adult skills fund devolution Monday, 11 November 2024
Transparency data: Skills Bootcamps training providers Monday, 11 November 2024
Case study: Peter Symonds Sixth Form College Monday, 11 November 2024
Further education estates planning Monday, 11 November 2024
Case study: Bridgwater and Taunton College Monday, 11 November 2024
Case study: Dudley College of Technology Monday, 11 November 2024
Transparency data: Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templat… Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Find, join or create a network for school business professionals Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Make a claim through the risk protection arrangement (RPA) Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Functional Skills subject content: maths Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Schools financial value standard Friday, 08 November 2024
Transparency data: New school proposals Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Functional Skills subject content: English Friday, 08 November 2024
Check you're eligible for free childcare if you're working Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Common basic data set (CBDS): database Friday, 08 November 2024
Open consultation: Transfer of funding powers for new technical qualificati… Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Academies chart of accounts and automating the accounts return Friday, 08 November 2024
Guidance: Apply for a childminder start-up grant Thursday, 07 November 2024
Find training to become a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver Thursday, 07 November 2024
Research: Department for Education – Research at DfE Thursday, 07 November 2024
Statistics: Department for Education – Statistics at DfE Thursday, 07 November 2024
Sign in to your apprenticeship service account Thursday, 07 November 2024
Guidance: Further education corporations and sixth-form college corporation… Thursday, 07 November 2024
Transparency data: Local authority interactive tool (LAIT) Thursday, 07 November 2024
Transparency data: Privacy information: parents, carers and legal guardians Thursday, 07 November 2024
Official Statistics: Pupil attendance in schools Thursday, 07 November 2024
Speech: Bridget Phillipson's Speech to the Confederation of School Trusts Thursday, 07 November 2024
Guidance: Early years census: technical specification Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Digital leadership and governance standards Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Broadband internet standards for schools and colleges Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Guidance: Alternative student finance Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Research: Employer skills survey 2022: UK findings Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Research: Employer skills survey 2019: UK (excluding Scotland) findings Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Research: Supported internship programme: evaluation of investment Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Guidance: Academies accounts return Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Guidance: Higher technical education skills injection fund 2 Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Guidance: Higher technical education provider growth fund Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Guidance: Higher technical education skills injection fund Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Policy paper: Tuition fees and student support: 2025 to 2026 academic year Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Guidance: School census 2024 to 2025: technical information Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Guidance: Academies accounts return: guide to using the online form Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Guidance: Academies accounts return Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Press release: Higher education reform to back opportunity and protect stud… Monday, 04 November 2024
Policy paper: Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE): overview Monday, 04 November 2024
Guidance: Higher education tuition fees for foundation years Monday, 04 November 2024
Guidance: Recruit an FE governor Monday, 04 November 2024
Guidance: Apply for a national professional qualification (NPQ) Monday, 04 November 2024
Guidance: School workforce census: guides Monday, 04 November 2024
Notice: Notice to improve: Westwoodside Church of England Academy Trust Friday, 01 November 2024
Transparency data: National Education Nature Park funding allocations Friday, 01 November 2024
Guidance: Children in need census 2024 to 2025: specification Friday, 01 November 2024