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Updated the 'Serious violence duty' section in 'Sharing information with safeguarding partners' to more accurately reflect the statutory requirements for educational authorities.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 2:51pm
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This update brings the definition of safeguarding in line with statutory guidance, ‘Working together to safeguard children 2026’, published on 18 March 2026.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 11:33am
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Updated the retention period for financial records relating to additional payments for teaching.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 10:32am
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Updated section 21 of table 2.1 in 'Early years practitioner: level 2 occupational certificate subject content' for clarity.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 9:46am
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Updated both the guidance document and the spreadsheet to account for discrepancies between the earlier versions.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 9:46am
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We have updated the IDSR for secondary schools only with the DfE’s 2026 provisional KS4 performance data.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 9:38am
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We have updated the IDSR for secondary schools only with the DfE’s 2026 provisional KS4 performance data. The IDSR guidance has been updated to reflect this update.
Our guide: School data
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 9:38am
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A comprehensive summary of changes is included in the 'National technical outcomes: change log'.
Updated on GOV.UK 22 October 2026, 2:45pm
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This is the first publication of the Employability Skills Framework.
Who this affects: Partners across the skills and employment system
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Added 'School teachers’ pay and conditions document 2026 and guidance on school teachers’ pay and conditions'.
Our guides: Workload, Pay and conditions
Updated on GOV.UK 16 October 2026, 4:05pm
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Updated for the academies accounts return (AR) 2025 to 2026.
Updated on GOV.UK 16 October 2026, 2:18pm
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Updated on GOV.UK 16 October 2026, 2:18pm
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Updated on GOV.UK 16 October 2026, 2:18pm
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Updated for the academies accounts return (AR) 2025 to 2026.
Our guide: School financial reporting
Updated on GOV.UK 16 October 2026, 2:18pm
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Updated section 5.2 of the guide.
Updated on GOV.UK 16 October 2026, 12:28pm
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- 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
- 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
- Grant funding for early career training programme for mentors (ECTPM) (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- General mentor training grant: conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027 (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- General mentor training grant: guidance for providers, 2026 to 2027 (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Find an appropriate body (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Pre-16 schools funding: local authority guidance for 2026 to 2027 (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Early years and childcare: Ofsted's enforcement policy (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Submit a local authority disapplication request (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Vocational quarterly: guide to the data submission process (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Setting executive salaries: guidance for academy trusts (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Free schools: pre-opening guide (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
- Non-maintained special schools: revenue funding allocation (opens in a new tab) · Check source applicabilitySept 2026
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Ofsted on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)- 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
- Early years: regulation (opens in a new tab)22 Oct 2026
- Report changes to registered people in your nursery or other group-based childcare provision (opens in a new tab)22 Oct 2026
Parliament
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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- Trains cancelled and roads warnings as Scotland prepares for Storm Boelo (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Scotland · 23 Oct 2026
Heavy rain and strong winds are expected during the second named storm to hit in two days, with gusts of up to 80mph forecast.
- Call for action after fall in number of children speaking Welsh (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 23 Oct 2026
Only 48% of children age 3-15 can speak Welsh, according to the annual population survey data.
- Blog post - Experts at Hand: Could this be the shift SEND has been waiting for (opens in a new tab)nasen · 23 Oct 2026
Blog post - Experts at Hand: Could this be the shift SEND has been waiting for bethj@nasen.org.uk Fri, 23/10/2026 - 16:41 This blog looks at the government's new Experts at Hand programme and the changes it will bring for settings seeking specialist support.
- Blog post - Active Learning Participation for Every Learner (opens in a new tab)nasen · 23 Oct 2026
Blog post - Active Learning Participation for Every Learner bethj@nasen.org.uk Fri, 23/10/2026 - 16:35 This blog considers what we mean by 'active learning', what it looks like in practice and how it benefits all learners.
- Weather warnings in place ahead of Storm Boelo (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Northern Ireland · 23 Oct 2026
The amber Met Office alert for counties Antrim and Londonderry lasts from 21:00 BST on Saturday until 21:00 GMT on Sunday.
- We’re teenage girls fighting to ban the use of school uniform in porn. Why have you left it up to us? | Rose, Mae, Aylin and Willow (opens in a new tab)The Guardian: schools · 23 Oct 2026
No one should have to feel nervous about walking to school in clothes designed for children. It’s time for UK law to end the disgusting sexualisation of minors In the Little Feminist Book Club, we don’t read a lot of books.
- Cyhuddo cyngor o 'daflu tanwydd ar goelcerth' wrth alw am atal cau ysgolion Cymraeg (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Wales · 23 Oct 2026
Mae llywodraethwyr tair ysgol gynradd yng Nghwm Gwendraeth yn galw am foratoriwm ar gau ysgolion cyfrwng Cymraeg.
- Governors from under-threat schools demand ‘national moratorium on closing small schools’ (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 23 Oct 2026
Stephen Price Governors of three under-threat schools have called on the Welsh Government to announce a moratorium on any decisions to close Welsh-medium schools.
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