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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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Added 'English and maths progress measure qualifications 2025 to 2026'.
Updated on GOV.UK 28 October 2026, 1:51pm
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Updated the 'School workforce census guide 2026'. Revisions are listed in the 'Changes since school workforce census 2025' section. Also updated the guide for centrally employed staff for 2026. Revisions are listed in the 'Main changes since school workforce census 2025' section.
Updated on GOV.UK 28 October 2026, 10:01am
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Updated on GOV.UK 27 October 2026, 3:37pm
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Updated 'School resource management advisers: information for local authorities, maintained schools and academy trusts' to reflect that local authority engagement will now be led by DfE regional teams and administration for local authority deployments will be managed by the SRMA team.
Updated on GOV.UK 27 October 2026, 1:17pm
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Updated the guidance now that AR 2025 to 2026 is live. Removed information about AR 2024 to 2025 as this is no longer available to view in read only mode.
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Updated on GOV.UK 27 October 2026, 10am
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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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7 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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8 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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9 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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10 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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10 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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15 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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16 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
- Academy funding payments: remittance advice guide (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- Academies chart of accounts (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilityOct 2026
- DfE assurance work on post-16 funding (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
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- School Food Standards: updating the legislative framework (opens in a new tab)29 Oct 2026
- Updating the school food standards: feasibility pilot findings (opens in a new tab)29 Oct 2026
- Under-18 sales ban extended to nicotine products and all vapes (opens in a new tab)29 Oct 2026
- Regulating Technical Qualifications in T Levels (opens in a new tab)29 Oct 2026
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Ofsted on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)- Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes in England: August 2026 (opens in a new tab)26 Oct 2026
- Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2026 (opens in a new tab)26 Oct 2026
- Ofsted safeguarding policy (opens in a new tab)23 Oct 2026
- IDSR: news and updates (opens in a new tab)23 Oct 2026
- School inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide (opens in a new tab)23 Oct 2026
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Education Committee (opens in a new tab)- 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
- Sir David Bell review into antisemitism in schools and colleges (opens in a new tab)Written ministerial statements: Department for Education · 21 Oct 2026
- Sir David Bell review into antisemitism in schools and colleges (opens in a new tab)Written ministerial statements: Department for Education · 21 Oct 2026
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- Before bans for under-16s, we need to ask: what counts as social media? (opens in a new tab)The Conversation UK: education · 29 Oct 2026
People do not consistently agree on what counts as social media
- 'My legs buckled when I opened my exam results during Covid' (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Scotland, BBC News: education · 29 Oct 2026
The Scottish Covid Inquiry prepares to hear from education bosses about the exams fiasco of 2020 which saw thousands of pupils downgraded.
- Healey warns of more ‘hard decisions’ and departmental spending cuts (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 29 Oct 2026
Sophie Wingate and George Lithgow, Press Association Political Staff Major departmental spending cuts are coming down the line to pay for the Government’s policies at next year’s spending review, John Healey has indicated.
- Strong Systems, Stronger Schools and Trusts (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 29 Oct 2026
Strong Systems, Stronger Schools and Trusts Strong systems don’t happen by accident – they are built through regular review and an understanding of how every process connects to the wider delivery of education and pupil wellbeing A good system supports both people and operations.
- 'Amser am atebion' i'r 'argyfwng' o brinder athrawon cyfrwng Cymraeg y dyfodol (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 29 Oct 2026
Mae pryder nad oes digon o bobl yn hyfforddi i addysgu drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, gyda rhai'n rhybuddio bod angen gweithredu ar frys.
- ‘Where is the ambition?’ – Plaid Cymru attacks Budget’s ‘worst funding settlement for Wales in years’ (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 28 Oct 2026
Stephen Price Plaid Cymru has accused UK Labour of treating Wales as an “afterthought” after a Budget it described as the country’s worst funding settlement in years.
- What Wales makes of the Budget: 'It helps, but it's not enough' (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 28 Oct 2026
Chancellor John Healey has set out the government's tax and spending plans, but opinions are split.
- Budget 2026: Key points at a glance (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Scotland, BBC News: Northern Ireland · 28 Oct 2026
Here’s what you need to know from John Healey’s first Budget, as the chancellor sets out the government’s tax and spending plans.
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