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19 GOV.UK updates in the last 7 days
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Added 5 benchmarking data spreadsheets, guidance on using the tables and an explanatory note to support local authority benchmarking data.
Updated on GOV.UK 3 November 2026, 9:32am
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Updated to reflect new DfE guidance on the use of restraint and restrictive practices in schools. This page was previously titled 'Positive environments where children can flourish'.
Updated on GOV.UK 3 November 2026, 9:30am
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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.
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Updated on GOV.UK 2 November 2026, 9:30am
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Updated for the 2026 to 2027 academic year. The deadline to complete the form is 5pm on 20 November 2026.
Updated on GOV.UK 2 November 2026, 9:30am
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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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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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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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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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- 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
- 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
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- National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) annual report: academic year 2025 to 2026, England (opens in a new tab)3 Nov 2026
- Child development outcomes: data for 2025 to 2026 (opens in a new tab)3 Nov 2026
- 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
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
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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- 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…
- FROM THE MAG: The Operational Challenges of Devising an Intentional Approach to AI (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 3 Nov 2026
In this Issue: Read about the latest Ofsted inspection updates, strategic risk planning and using data to support social mobility in schools and trusts.
- Welsh schoolgirls get taste of engineering careers in new programme (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 3 Nov 2026
Dozens of schoolgirls across Wales have been given a taste of life in engineering through a new programme aimed at inspiring more young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
- Locked out of holiday fun: SEND reform must tackle the provision gap for disabled children in care (opens in a new tab)Special Needs Jungle · 3 Nov 2026
New article from Special Needs Jungle: with Debbie Gayle, Specialist Therapeutic Foster Carer As both a therapeutic foster carer and a biological parent to children with additional needs, I know how difficult it can be to … The post Locked out of holiday fun: SEND reform must tackle the provision…
- 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.
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