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21 GOV.UK updates in the last 7 days
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Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The inspection dates and survey windows for the Gateshead, Barnet, Somerset and Hampshire Local Area Partnerships have been added. The entry for the Wigan Local Area Partnership, Devon Local Area Partnership, Lambeth Local Area Partnership, Croydon Local Area Partnership, Surrey Local Area Partnership and Leicestershire Local Area Partnership have been removed.
Who this affects: Local area partnerships in England
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3 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The document has been updated to include a new attachment titled 'How we will assess protecting public money risks'.
Who this affects: Education providers registered with the Office for Students intending to deliver LLE-funded modular provision in England
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3 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)This is the first publication of the guidance.
Who this affects: Local authorities in England
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5 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)An edition titled 'English and maths progress measure qualifications 2025 to 2026' has been added.
Who this affects: Awarding organisations, schools, and colleges in England
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5 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The 'list of registered providers of specified FE ITE courses' has been updated.
Who this affects: Providers of further education (FE) initial teacher education (ITE) courses in England
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Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)This is the first published version of the ‘Net capacity assessment: programme guide’. No earlier version is available for comparison.
Who this affects: Schools, responsible bodies, and local authorities in England
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5 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The 2026 school workforce census guide has been updated, including a rollover of dates to set the next census for 5 November 2026 and clarification of guidance on working days lost data for part-time staff in section 7.3.
Who this affects: School leaders, local authorities, and staff responsible for census returns in maintained schools, academies, free schools, pupil referral units, and Multi Academy Trusts in England
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Added a video and information about 'Ofsted: explore an area', our tool that helps parents and carers to look for, and compare, schools and childcare providers.
Our guide: Ofsted and inspection
Updated on GOV.UK 2 November 2026, 9:30am
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Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)This is the first published version of the document. No earlier version is available for comparison.
Who this affects: Organisations that manage technical qualifications, including OfS regulated higher education providers and Ofqual-recognised awarding organisations in England
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11 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The 'compare your good level of development tool' now includes data from the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
Who this affects: Schools, trusts and local authorities in England
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11 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The guidance has been updated to clarify the registration of wraparound provision operating on school sites. The Annex has been updated to align terminology with the renewed education inspection framework and to replace a hyperlink.
Who this affects: Maintained schools, academies, multi-academy trusts and independent schools in England
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11 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The guidance has been updated to refer only to applicant processes. It now provides links to the early years and childcare enforcement policy for providers currently registered with Ofsted.
Who this affects: Applicants seeking to register as childcare providers in England
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12 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The funding guide has been updated to reflect changes in claiming the fixed £150 learning support payment. Although it was planned that providers would claim this via the ILR from 1 August 2026, system unavailability means providers must continue to claim it through the EAS until further notice.
Who this affects: Training providers in England
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13 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The guidance has been updated to reflect 2025 to 2026 KS4 school and college level performance data and the removal of English Baccalaureate (EBacc) performance measures.
Who this affects: Senior leaders in secondary schools, trusts, academies, alternative provision, free schools, and special schools, as well as independent schools or colleges with 14 to 16 provision, governors, trustees, and local authorities in England
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14 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The guidance has been updated for the 2027 to 2028 academic year.
Who this affects: Special post-16 institutions in England
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14 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)Bitesize webinar links have been added to the T Level funding guide 2026 to 2027 and the Record your T Level data correctly in academic year 2026 to 2027 document.
Who this affects: Institutions that deliver T Levels in England
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- Regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- RISE attendance and behaviour hubs: guidance for partner schools (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicability · View change historyOct 2026
- Funding for books and reading materials for secondary schools (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Criteria and process for retiring an apprenticeship (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Primary assessments: future dates (opens in a new tab) · Primary schools · View change historyOct 2026
- Estimating pupil numbers: how to complete your return for 2027 to 2028 (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Key stage 2 tests: varying the test timetable (opens in a new tab) · Primary schoolsOct 2026
- Optional key stage 1 tests: access arrangements (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Key stage 2 tests: access arrangements (opens in a new tab) · Primary schoolsOct 2026
- Optional key stage 1 tests guidance (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Phonics screening check: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA) (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Pre-16 schools funding: local authority guidance for 2027 to 2028 (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicability · View change historyOct 2026
- Funding claims and reconciliation (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicability · View change historyOct 2026
- Holiday activities and food programme (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Special educational needs person level survey: report specifications (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- School uniform guidance (opens in a new tab) · View change historyOct 2026
- Replacement certificates for apprenticeship frameworks (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- End-point assessment organisation guide to assessing apprenticeships (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Regulation of end-point assessments: status (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Church academies: model documents (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- School-age childcare guidance for schools (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Academies Accounts Direction (opens in a new tab) · Academy trusts · View change historyOct 2026
- High needs funding arrangements: 2027 to 2028 (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Free school meals — guidance for schools (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schools, academies and non-maintained special schools · View change historyOct 2026
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- Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: April to September 2026 (quarters one and two 2026 to 2027) (opens in a new tab)2 Nov 2026
- Joining the TechFirst community (opens in a new tab)2 Nov 2026
- Child employment regulatory framework (opens in a new tab)2 Nov 2026
- Elective home education and children missing education data collection: grant determination (opens in a new tab)2 Nov 2026
- Share free breakfast club daily attendance data (opens in a new tab)2 Nov 2026
Ofsted news
Ofsted on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)- Area SEND inspections: information about ongoing inspections (opens in a new tab)2 Nov 2026
- Understanding Ofsted report cards and grades (opens in a new tab)2 Nov 2026
- Ofsted Parent View: management information (opens in a new tab)30 Oct 2026
- Ofsted's code of conduct: collaborative inspection and regulation (opens in a new tab)30 Oct 2026
- Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes in England: August 2026 (opens in a new tab)26 Oct 2026
Parliament
Education Committee (opens in a new tab)- Local SEND Reform Plan Outcomes (opens in a new tab)Written ministerial statements: Department for Education · 29 Oct 2026
- Local SEND Reform Plan Outcomes (opens in a new tab)Written ministerial statements: Department for Education · 29 Oct 2026
- Letter from Sir Martyn Oliver on Independent research renewed framework inspections, dated 08.10.26 (opens in a new tab)House of Commons Education Committee · 22 Oct 2026
- Progress towards improving children’s outcomes, giving every child the best start in life (opens in a new tab)Written ministerial statements: Department for Education · 22 Oct 2026
- Progress towards improving children’s outcomes, giving every child the best start in life (opens in a new tab)Written ministerial statements: Department for Education · 22 Oct 2026
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- Gwynedd: 'Hyderus fod plant yn fwy diogel', flwyddyn wedi adroddiad Foden (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 2 Nov 2026
Cyngor Gwynedd yn dweud eu bod wedi cyflawni wyth o'r naw argymhelliad i gynghorau Cymru weithredu arnynt yn sgil achos Neil Foden.
- Protest yn Sir Gâr wrth i gyngor gytuno i ymgynghori ar gau ysgolion (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 2 Nov 2026
Bydd ymghynghoriad statudol yn cael ei gynnal mewn cysylltiad ag ysgolion Blaenau, Pontiets, Carwe a Bancffosfelen.
- Senedd to vote on £354m Welsh Government spending package (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 2 Nov 2026
Mark Mansfield A £354 million package of additional spending on the NHS, childcare and schools will be put to a Senedd vote tomorrow following an agreement between the Welsh Government and Welsh Labour on Additional Learning Needs funding.
- The Invisible Work Problem (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 2 Nov 2026
The Invisible Work Problem Not all the work that keeps a school running appears on a job description, workload plan or organisational chart You might have heard the term ‘invisible labour’ before.
- Do you have questions about your child’s annual review? (opens in a new tab)Contact (families with disabled children) · 2 Nov 2026
If your child or young person has an education, health and care (EHC) plan, their local authority must review it at least once a year. This formal process is known as an annual review, and it must follow specific legal requirements.
- NEWS: Government Commits £15m to Tackling Misogyny (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 2 Nov 2026
As reported by The Guardian, the Government is committing £15m to a new UK-wide fund aimed at tackling misogyny and everyday sexism Led by Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson, the initiative aims to challenge harmful attitudes and prevent abusive behaviour, particularly among young…
- ‘TransformED should not be rushed and forced through’: Alliance warns Paul Givan’s education shake-up risks deepening NI schools crisis (opens in a new tab)Belfast Telegraph: education · 2 Nov 2026
- ‘Schools of Sanctuary take respect and inclusion to another level’: EA award scheme reaches 100-school milestone (opens in a new tab)Belfast Telegraph: education · 2 Nov 2026
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