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19 GOV.UK updates in the last 7 days
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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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Updated in line with a new statutory obligation introduced by the Employment Rights Act 2025, on 30 October 2026.
Updated on GOV.UK 30 October 2026, 9:30am
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Updated on GOV.UK 30 October 2026, 9:30am
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Added Home-to-school travel data collection questions for 2027 and 2028. Updated 'Home-to-school travel: data collection' guidance.
Updated on GOV.UK 30 October 2026, 9:23am
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Updated with details of the second expression of interest application round, which is open from 30 October 2026 until 30 November 2026 at 11.59pm.
Updated on GOV.UK 30 October 2026, 9am
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Added guidance to help providers prepare for Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) applications opening from October 2026.
Updated on GOV.UK 30 October 2026, 7am
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Updated the guidance to reflect that Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) applications are opening from October 2026.
Updated on GOV.UK 30 October 2026, 7am
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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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8 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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9 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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10 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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11 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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11 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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16 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The availability of the 'Submit local authority monitoring and moderation agreement requests' form for academies and participating independent schools, and the 'Approve monitoring and moderation agreement requests' form for local authorities, has been moved to Monday 2 November.
Who this affects: Academies, participating independent schools, and local authorities in England
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17 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)Three budget data documents have been added to the collection, covering high needs places and funding in maintained schools, local authority planned expenditure on early years budgets, and a time series of planned expenditure for education and children's services from 2015/16 to 2026/27. File names have also been amended for clarity.
Who this affects: Local authority finance officers in England
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- 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
- Full-time enrolment of 14- to 16-year-olds in further education and sixth-form colleges (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Area SEND inspections: information about ongoing inspections (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- School census 2026 to 2027: technical information (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicability · View change historyOct 2026
- Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores (opens in a new tab)Oct 2026
- Employability Skills Framework (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicability · View change historyOct 2026
- International qualified teacher status: criteria for providers (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- The Prevent duty: safeguarding learners (DfE) (opens in a new tab) · View change historyOct 2026
- 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Academy Trust Handbook (opens in a new tab) · Academy trusts · View change historyOct 2026
- Academy trust handbook 2026: effective from 1 October 2026 (opens in a new tab) · Check the published scope and its exceptions in the sourceOct 2026
- Children and young people's alcohol and drug services: framework (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- National school breakfast programme: secondary school support grant (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
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- Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes in England: August 2026 (opens in a new tab)26 Oct 2026
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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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- UK Budget leaves bleak prospects for the Welsh Government (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 30 Oct 2026
Martin Shipton Public services in Wales are facing a bleak outlook following the UK Budget this week, according to economic analysts from Cardiff University.
- Benedict’s Law: Welsh parents call for greater consistency in allergy care in schools (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 30 Oct 2026
Jules Millward A south Wales mum says that she’s so worried her seven-year-old son will be exposed to his allergen in school that she stays close by until he has finished lunch.
- Read Again: The Hidden Bottlenecks Slowing Everything Down (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 30 Oct 2026
Read Again: The Hidden Bottlenecks Slowing Everything Down From overloaded teams to outdated systems, operational bottlenecks can quietly drain productivity and morale.
- First minister urges Burnham to be serious about Wales (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 30 Oct 2026
The Welsh government criticised Wednesday's budget claiming it leaves Wales facing real-terms cuts.
- Scottish police to target online gangs forcing children to self-harm (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Scotland · 30 Oct 2026
Officers are hunting members of loose online networks of sadists who mainly targets girls on gaming platforms and social media.
- Training new teachers to arrive skilled, confident, and ready to support their pupils with SEND (opens in a new tab)Special Needs Jungle · 30 Oct 2026
New article from Special Needs Jungle: with Phil Smith, Consultant, NASBTT It’s well known that newly minted teachers often find they arrive in their classrooms without the training they deserve to support growing numbers of children … The post Training new teachers to arrive skilled, confident,…
- It’s good to be flexible (opens in a new tab)Resolution Foundation · 29 Oct 2026
This blog was originally published on the Resolution Foundation’s Substack. Yesterday the Chancellor told us what the minimum wage rates will be from April 2027 (well, strictly speaking he told the Times on Tuesday…). All rates – both adult and youth – will go up by 3.9 per cent.
- 'Mwy o bwysau' ar gynorthwywyr dysgu ond 'dim tâl i helpu' (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 29 Oct 2026
Protestiadau fel rhan o ymgyrch undeb i sicrhau mwy o gydnabyddiaeth a mwy o gyflog i gynorthwywyr addysgu.
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