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20 GOV.UK updates in the last 7 days
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Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The 'Further education and sixth-form college corporations: governance guide' has been updated to correct the name of the Education Training Foundation and update links.
Who this affects: Governors, senior staff, auditors, and college inspectors of FE corporations and sixth-form college corporations in England
today
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)This is the first publication of this document.
Who this affects: Education and childcare settings in England
yesterday
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
4 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
4 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
6 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
6 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
6 days ago
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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8 days ago
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
12 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
12 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
12 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
13 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
14 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
15 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
15 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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- Complete the school census (opens in a new tab) · Schools covered by the school census in England · View change historyOct 2026
- Section 251: 2025 to 2026 (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- General hospital schools census: guide (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Overseas-trained teachers: apply for qualified teacher status in England (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Advocacy services for children and young people (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- National standards for the provision of children’s and young people’s advocacy services (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Assessment only route to QTS: criteria and supporting advice (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- 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
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- Public Office (Accountability) Bill (opens in a new tab)3 Nov 2026
UK Parliament: bills
- Marker role information (opens in a new tab)3 Nov 2026
Qualifications Scotland: website updates
- Sustainability leadership and climate action plans in education (opens in a new tab)3 Nov 2026
Department for Education, GOV.UK: education, training and skills
- What is a support-first approach to school attendance? (opens in a new tab)3 Nov 2026
DfE Education Hub blog
Ofsted news
Ofsted on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)- Guidance for inspectors and providers on using restraint, physical intervention and restrictions of liberty (opens in a new tab)3 Nov 2026
- 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
UK 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
From the sector
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- Primary one pupils offered counselling to cope with anxiety (opens in a new tab)The Scotsman: education · 3 Nov 2026
Pupils are requiring mental health supports for anxiety at an increasingly young age
- Police called to schools 'every single day' to deal with smartphone threats (opens in a new tab)The Scotsman: education · 3 Nov 2026
Smartphones are being used for round-the-clock bullying, MSPs were told
- Givan claims Curriculum 2028 reforms have ‘broad support’ after 4,300 responses to consultation (opens in a new tab)Belfast Telegraph: education · 3 Nov 2026
Window to have say on planned changes to teaching in Northern Ireland schools now closed
- How typical is my school for…sanctions? (opens in a new tab)Teacher Tapp · 3 Nov 2026
Hey there, Teacher Tappers! Every school has a behaviour policy, and every behaviour policy has sanctions. But who gets to hand them out, what they look like, and how often they’re used varies hugely from school to school.
- Leading SEND with Systemic Empathy (opens in a new tab)Diverse Educators · 3 Nov 2026
A blog by Kate Hinks The post Leading SEND with Systemic Empathy first appeared on Belonging Effect.
- NEWS: Ofcom Outlines Age Check Methods (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 3 Nov 2026
NEWS: Ofcom Outlines Age Check Methods As reported by the BBC, Ofcom has recommended four methods for verifying users’ ages ahead of the UK’s planned social media ban for under-16s, due to come into force next March.
- Vocational GCSEs won’t arrive until 2029 – but clean energy skills can be found in the curriculum now (opens in a new tab)The Conversation UK: education · 3 Nov 2026
UK clean energy jobs are expected to double by 2030.
- Why where you grow up shapes the future you can imagine (opens in a new tab)UCL Institute of Education blog · 3 Nov 2026
3 November 2026 By Amit Singh Nearly one million young people aged 16 to 24 in the UK are currently not in education, employment or training (NEET). The government is responding with new measures designed to help more young people into work, including expanded Youth Hubs and guaranteed paid jobs…
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