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41 GOV.UK updates in the last 7 days
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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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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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3 days ago
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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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4 days ago
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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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5 days ago
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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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5 days ago
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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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The deadline to complete and submit your Residential Bursary Fund data return form has now passed.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 5pm
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The deadline to complete and submit your Residential Support Scheme data return form has now passed.
Updated on GOV.UK 23 October 2026, 5pm
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Replaced 'Providing advocacy services for children and young people' with 'Effective advocacy for looked-after children, children in need and care leavers'.
Updated on GOV.UK 13 October 2026, 9:30am
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2026 to 2027 academic year updates to: eligibility criteria in A1.4 as applicant's need at least 2 years' teaching experience in 2 schools or 5 years' experience in a single school; criteria A1.3, A2.2 and A2.3 covering headteacher recommendations for applicants, making phase decisions for applicants in special schools and alternative provision settings; and appropriate adaptations to assessment procedures for applicants working in those settings.
Updated on GOV.UK 13 October 2026, 9:30am
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Added link to universal RISE grants case studies.
Updated on GOV.UK 12 October 2026, 4:27pm
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Added information about expanding book provision using school budgets and the Booksellers Association.
Updated on GOV.UK 12 October 2026, 2:11pm
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Updated on GOV.UK 12 October 2026, 10:29am
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Updated with dates and clarifications for the academic year 2026 to 2027.
Our guide: KS2 SATs
Updated on GOV.UK 12 October 2026, 9am
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- 16 to 19 education: funding guidance (opens in a new tab) · Education institutions receiving 16 to 19 formula fundingMar 2023
- School Admission Appeals Code (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schools and academiesJan 2023
- Teaching online safety in schools (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schools and academiesJan 2023
- School workload reduction toolkit (opens in a new tab)Withdrawn by GOV.UK
- Health and Safety in Schools (opens in a new tab)Apr 2022
- School Admissions Code (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schools and academiesMar 2022
- First aid in schools, early years and further education (opens in a new tab)Feb 2022
- T Level foundation year: framework for delivery (opens in a new tab)Dec 2021
- Teachers' Standards (opens in a new tab)Dec 2021
- Technical qualifications within T Levels (opens in a new tab)Apr 2021
- Benchmark your school’s financial data (opens in a new tab)Mar 2021
- School Complaints Procedures (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schoolsJan 2021
- Headteachers' standards 2020 (opens in a new tab) · Headteachers in EnglandOct 2020
- Governance handbook and competency framework (opens in a new tab)Withdrawn by GOV.UK
- Teacher Misconduct Procedures (opens in a new tab)May 2020
- Health and safety on educational visits (opens in a new tab)Nov 2018
- Mental health and behaviour in schools (opens in a new tab)Nov 2018
- Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006 (opens in a new tab) · Schools where staff work with under-fives or under-eights in before- and after-school settings, and other non-domestic childcare settingsAug 2018
- Equality Act 2010: advice for schools (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schools, academies, free schools, local authorities, non-maintained special schools and independent schools in EnglandJune 2018
- Charging for school activities (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schoolsMay 2018
- 16 to 19 education: financial management and assurance (opens in a new tab)Apr 2018
- Designated Teacher for Looked-After Children (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schoolsFeb 2018
- Using emergency adrenaline auto-injectors in schools (opens in a new tab)Sept 2017
- Supporting pupils with medical conditions (opens in a new tab) · Maintained schools, academies and pupil referral unitsAug 2017
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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 · 24 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.
- More than 6,000 hate crimes recorded in Wales as Jewish communities raise concerns (opens in a new tab)Nation.Cymru · 24 Oct 2026
Nation.Cymru staff More than 6,000 hate crimes were recorded by police in Wales in a year, as Jewish community representatives warned council leaders about verbal abuse and fears over children’s safety.
- Weather warnings in place ahead of Storm Boelo (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Northern Ireland · 24 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.
- Expert is scathing at ‘rushed’ NI education reform plans as minister urged to ‘go back to drawing board’ (opens in a new tab)Belfast Telegraph: education · 24 Oct 2026
- Parents call for tougher measures in schools to tackle allergies (opens in a new tab)BBC News: Northern Ireland, BBC News: education · 24 Oct 2026
At present, the onus is mainly on parents and individual schools to ensure safety measures for pupils are in place.
- Experienced teachers are quitting or reducing their hours – here's why (opens in a new tab)The Scotsman: education · 24 Oct 2026
More than six in ten of them described leadership practices that hastened their withdrawal
- 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.
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