The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.
Department For Education
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Criteria that early years qualifications, started before 1 September 2014, must meet to be classed as 'full and relevant' by DfE.
The assessment criteria and minimum qualification content requirements for level 3 early years educators.
The criteria for the minimum qualification content of level 2 early years practitioners qualifications.
Lists of qualifications that meet DfE's criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage framework staff:child ratios.
Research looking at whether, on average, bigger childcare providers deliver childcare more cheaply.
Evidence of providers’ finances from the 2022 survey of childcare and early years providers.
Information on the intensive training and practice (ITAP) element of initial teacher training (ITT).
Letters sent to the local authorities selected for funding through the £12 million family hubs transformation fund.
Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2025 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.
Information for local authorities on how to submit an application to take part in the designated family judge trailblazer pilot.
Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education Robert Halfon delivers a speech at the Times Higher Education conference in Liverpool.
Schools eligible for split sites funding and numbers of additional sites which qualify for the basic and distance elements of the funding.
Guidance for awarding organisations submitting technical and applied qualifications for school and college performance tables.
Provisional recruitment to initial teacher training (ITT) programmes in England in the academic year 2023 to 2024.
Department for Education (DfE) approved data shares with external, third-party organisations.
Data on the levels of attendance and overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.
Data on the levels of attendance and overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.
How to apply for access to personal data from DfE and its executive agencies.
How awarding organisations can ensure the transfer of their level 4 to 6 qualifications funded in Advanced Learner Loans to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement.
Assessment framework specification files for software suppliers developing management information systems (MIS).
Spending over £25,000 by the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies during the financial year 2023 to 2024.
Teachers' pension scheme payments made on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE) in the 2023 to 2024 financial year.
How business professionals working in schools can find, join or create a network of local school business professionals.
Information about flexi-job apprenticeships using approved agencies, in occupations that often use short-term contracts or other non-standard employment models.
Lists the Skills Bootcamps by sector currently open for applications in the north-west.
Skills Bootcamps offer free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks. You'll be offered a job interview with an employer once you complete the course.
Data on confirmed evidence of RAAC and the mitigations in place in state-funded education settings.
England is among the highest performing European and western countries in global education study.
England's PISA 2022 results, with an international comparison of mathematics, reading and science performance of 15-year-old pupils.
Information on all academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs) open in England, and those in the process of opening.
How end-point assessment organisations (EPAOs) join the apprenticeship provider and assessment register (APAR).
Lists of local authorities seeking academy and free school proposers, and of all academies and free schools already set up.
Join an attendance hub to get support and resources to improve your approach to managing attendance and significantly reduce absence in your school.
Information for childminders and providers of childcare on domestic premises wishing to register with a childminder agency.
How local authorities should report data for the annual special educational needs survey, commonly known as SEN2.
Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2025 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.
The template and style guide for contractors to use when writing research reports for the Department for Education (DfE).
Guidance for further education providers who have successfully registered to Taking Teaching Further (TTF) 2023.
Gender pay gap information for the Department for Education (DfE) as of 31 March 2023.
How to use NCS in a school or college to help develop students' skills and confidence.
Files for the electronic transfer of 2024 co-ordinated admissions data, primarily for use by software suppliers.
Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
Findings from wave 1 of the Children of the 2020s (Cot20s) longitudinal study.
Local authority funding to support the provision of new early years entitlement and wraparound places.
Department For Education
The Department for Education is responsible for education and children’s services in England. We work to achieve a highly educated society in which opportunity is equal for children and young people, no matter what their background or family circumstances.
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