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41 GOV.UK updates in the last 7 days
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3 days ago
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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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3 days ago
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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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4 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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5 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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6 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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6 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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11 days ago
Open on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab)Written by AI, not individually reviewed
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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12 days ago
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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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13 days ago
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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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13 days ago
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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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16 days ago
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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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16 days ago
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The 'Year end funding claims user guide' has been replaced by the 'Final funding claims user guide'.
Who this affects: Colleges and training providers delivering grant-funded adult provision in England
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17 days ago · 1 earlier change
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The guidance and its associated template documents are being reviewed to reflect the Procurement Act 2023.
Who this affects: England; schools and governing boards.
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18 days ago
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The guide for submitting audited financial statements for 2025 to 2026 has been published and the online accounts submission coversheet is open.
Who this affects: Academy trusts in England
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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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- Breakfast clubs early adopters: results from parents' survey (opens in a new tab)23 Oct 2026
- Breakfast club early adopters: final report (opens in a new tab)23 Oct 2026
- Breakfast club early adopters: interim evaluation (opens in a new tab)23 Oct 2026
- Pupil attendance in schools (opens in a new tab)22 Oct 2026
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Education Committee (opens in a new tab)- 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 we need to celebrate the arts and humanities in primary education (opens in a new tab)UCL Institute of Education blog · 22 Oct 2026
22 October 2026 By Alice Bradbury The 2025 Curriculum and Assessment Review (CAR) was a once in a decade opportunity to overhaul both what children in primary schools in England learn, and how they are assessed on their learning.
- Blog post - Before the Pencil: The Importance of Fine Motor Skills (opens in a new tab)nasen · 20 Oct 2026
Blog post - Before the Pencil: The Importance of Fine Motor Skills bethj@nasen.org.uk Tue, 20/10/2026 - 10:23 This blog looks at the relationship between fine motor development and academic learning. This blog looks at the relationship between fine motor development and academic learning.
- SEND reform proposals: Individual Support Plans (opens in a new tab)Contact (families with disabled children) · 19 Oct 2026
Under the Schools White Paper proposals, all schools, nurseries and colleges would have a legal duty to produce an Individual Support Plan (ISP) for every child with a special educational need (SEN). This means: It’s important to remember that these are just proposals and nothing has changed.
- Radicalisation – Signs to look out for in primary (opens in a new tab)Teachwire · 9 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to face radicalisation in their classroom, but the first step towards stamping it out is trying to understand it, says Sarah Wordlaw... The post Radicalisation – Signs to look out for in primary appeared first on Teachwire.
- NEWS: Schools See Thousands of Sexual Offences Against Children (opens in a new tab)Education Executive · 7 Oct 2026
NEWS: Schools See Thousands of Sexual Offences Against Children As reported by the Guardian, police recorded thousands of sexual offences against children aged 12 and under in and around schools across England and Wales over five years More than 8,500 sexual offences against children aged 12 and und
- Potty training scheme to roll out to 20 more areas (opens in a new tab)BBC News: education · 5 Oct 2026
The government wants 75% of children to end their first year of school with a good level of development by 2028.
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