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35 GOV.UK updates in the last 7 days
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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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5 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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6 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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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.
Our guide: School financial reporting
Updated on GOV.UK 27 October 2026, 10am
Academy trusts
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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.
Updated on GOV.UK 27 October 2026, 10am
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Amended autumn 2026 in attached HTML document to autumn 2027 as the programme has been delayed by a year.
Updated on GOV.UK 26 October 2026, 4:38pm
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Updated on GOV.UK 26 October 2026, 4:12pm
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7 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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8 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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8 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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13 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
Our guide: KS2 SATs
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14 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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15 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)YouTube links have been added to the guidance to allow for the viewing of CPD sessions 5 and 6.
Who this affects: Partner schools participating in the RISE attendance and behaviour hubs programme in England
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15 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)Assessment dates for the 2028 to 2029 academic year have been added. Two new downloadable assessment calendars for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 for the 2026 to 2027 academic year are now available.
Who this affects: Schools in England.
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18 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)The summary policy document for the 2027 to 2028 schools national funding formula (NFF) now includes a reference to maternity pay funding within the section regarding the structure of the NFF.
Who this affects: Local authorities, schools, and academy trusts in England
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- Review of level 3 qualifications reform: final outcomes (opens in a new tab)Oct 2025
- Record keeping and management (opens in a new tab)Sept 2025
- Staffing and employment advice for schools (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schools and academies in EnglandSept 2025
- Supporting higher education providers with T Levels (opens in a new tab)Sept 2025
- Children Missing Education (opens in a new tab)Sept 2025
- Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision (opens in a new tab)Aug 2025
- Non-school alternative provision: voluntary national standards (opens in a new tab)Aug 2025
- Generative AI in Education (opens in a new tab)Aug 2025
- Area SEND: framework and handbook (opens in a new tab)July 2025
- 16 to 19 education: financial support for students (opens in a new tab)June 2025
- Access your school attendance data (opens in a new tab) · Schools, academy trusts and local authorities in EnglandMay 2025
- Protective security and preparedness for education settings (opens in a new tab)Apr 2025
- Managing Asbestos in Your School (opens in a new tab)Mar 2025
- T Levels capital fund (opens in a new tab)Feb 2025
- Post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below for the 2025 to 2026 academic year (opens in a new tab)Feb 2025
- Alternative provision (opens in a new tab)Feb 2025
- SEN and disability duties: guidance for school governing boards (opens in a new tab)Feb 2025
- Teacher misconduct: regulating the teaching profession (opens in a new tab)Nov 2024
- What academies and further education colleges must or should publish online (opens in a new tab) · Academies, academy trusts and further education collegesOct 2024
- What maintained schools must or should publish online (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schoolsOct 2024
- Strong foundations in the first years of school (opens in a new tab) · Early years and ReceptionOct 2024
- SEND Code of Practice (opens in a new tab)Sept 2024
- Mandatory qualification for SENCOs (opens in a new tab)Sept 2024
- Providing remote education: guidance for schools (opens in a new tab) · Schools in England; pupils of compulsory school age onlyAug 2024
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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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- From the Mag: The Principles of Tension and Tolerance (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 27 Oct 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.
- Supporting children with dyslexia starts with preparing their teachers (opens in a new tab)The Conversation UK: education · 27 Oct 2026
Supporting struggling readers requires explicit knowledge of how spoken and written language work.
- Turning Potential Into Performance (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 27 Oct 2026
Turning Potential Into Performance Turning Potential Into Performance Many employers believe young people are entering work less prepared than previous generations.
- Biliau, tanwydd a phensiynau - sut allai'r Gyllideb effeithio ar Gymru? (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 27 Oct 2026
Pobl a busnesau Cymru'n trafod eu blaenoriaethau nhw, cyn i'r Canghellor John Healey cyhoeddi manylion y Gyllideb ddydd Mercher.
- The Childhood Lottery: Reflecting on the findings and response (opens in a new tab)Children's Commissioner for England · 27 Oct 2026
I recently published The Childhood Lottery report – bringing together 162 metrics, including children’s own views and experiences, to create one of the most comprehensive datasets on children’s lives.
- Changes made to key document recommending closure of school (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 26 Oct 2026
Richard Youle, Local Democracy reporter A document recommending the closure of a primary school has been amended after councillors raised concerns about its contents.
- Consultation launched over future of free school milk in Wales (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 26 Oct 2026
The future of free school milk for young children in Wales is under review, with a public consultation launched today on whether a current scheme should continue or be scrapped.
- Edinburgh and Forth Valley colleges to look at collaborating amid challenging times for sector (opens in a new tab)The Scotsman: education · 26 Oct 2026
Announcement comes amid mounting financial pressure facing colleges sector
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