| Weekly update from GOV.UK for: Department for Education Free courses for jobs: provider list Page summary: Details of the colleges and training providers that are making free level 3 qualifications available to eligible adults. Change made: The ‘Free courses for jobs: list of providers’ has been updated. Time updated: 2:48pm, 30 January 2023 Academies: making significant changes or closure by agreement Page summary: Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State. Change made: Updated ‘Closure of an academy by mutual agreement’ to remove outdated references and expand guidance on the closure of special educational provision. Time updated: 3:00pm, 30 January 2023 School organisation: local-authority-maintained schools Page summary: Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers about opening, closing or making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools. Change made: We have reviewed this guidance and removed out-of-date information. The legislation remains the same. Time updated: 3:00pm, 30 January 2023 Establishing a new academy: free school presumption Page summary: Guidance on establishing new schools through the free school presumption route and the qualities new school proposers must demonstrate. Change made: Updated the free school presumption guidance to reflect the expectation that local authorities should involve the department in the assessment process and added a section on community cohesion. Added annex D covering pre-opening expectations. Time updated: 3:00pm, 30 January 2023 Choosing a phonics teaching programme Page summary: Sets out what the government is doing to help schools choose a phonics teaching programme. Change made: Updated ‘Choosing a phonics teaching programme’ to reflect updates to SSP programmes and funding information. Time updated: 3:06pm, 30 January 2023 Monthly statistics on initial teacher training recruitment: 2023 to 2024 Page summary: Numbers of candidates and applications for initial teacher training (ITT) for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Change made: Added data for December 2022 and January 2023. Time updated: 3:35pm, 30 January 2023 Higher education student data UK: 2021 to 2022 Page summary: Detailed open data tables about students at higher education (HE) providers in the UK for the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 31 January 2023 Phonics screening data collection: technical specification Page summary: Specification for software suppliers and local authorities preparing for the phonics screening check data collection 2023. Change made: First published. Time updated: 11:32am, 31 January 2023 Phonics screening check data collection: guide to submitting data Page summary: How local authorities should collect phonics screening check data from all local-authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools. Change made: Updated the important dates section to include the date the 2023 collection opens and the deadline for submitting data. Added a link to the 2023 phonics screening data collection technical specification. Time updated: 11:34am, 31 January 2023 Key stage 1 assessments data collection: technical specification Page summary: Technical specification defining the scope of the 2023 key stage 1 (KS1) assessments data collection from local authorities. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:02pm, 31 January 2023 Key stage 1 assessments data collection: guide to submitting data Page summary: How local authorities should collect key stage 1 (KS1) assessments data from all state-funded schools, including academies and free schools. Change made: Added important dates for 2023. Updated links to GOV.UK guidance for the 2023 data return. Time updated: 12:02pm, 31 January 2023 Accreditation for online education providers Page summary: What the government is doing to make sure that online education providers are of the appropriate quality and meeting the correct standard. Change made: Updated with information about the online education standards and guidance supporting the scheme along with further details about the rollout of the scheme. Time updated: 2:35pm, 31 January 2023 Online education standards and how to meet them Page summary: Online education standards and guidance on how providers of full time online education can meet them. Change made: First published. Time updated: 2:35pm, 31 January 2023 How the online education accreditation scheme works Page summary: How providers of full time online education can join the Department for Education’s online education accreditation scheme. Change made: First published. Time updated: 2:36pm, 31 January 2023 Find, join or create a network for school business professionals Page summary: How business professionals working in schools can find, join or create a network of local school business professionals. Change made: Updated the ‘Find a school business professional network’ attachment. Removed the Leicestershire School Business Professionals Network and the Peterborough and Rutland School Business Managers Group. Added the Cambridgeshire School Business Networking Group and the Wiltshire area MAT CFO network. Updated the email address for the Bath Education Trust and moved the Essex Academies School Business Managers Network to the East of England section. Time updated: 4:01pm, 31 January 2023 Free school meals: guidance for schools and local authorities Page summary: Guidance for schools and local authorities about providing school meals including information on free school meal eligibility. Change made: ‘Free school meals: guidance for local authorities, maintained schools, academies and free schools’ has been replaced with an updated version that adds revised dates for transitional protections, amends broken links and removes outdated information. Time updated: 4:32pm, 31 January 2023 National Leaders of Governance for further education Page summary: Find out about the role of National Leaders of Governance (NLGs) for further education and how NLGs support college improvement. Change made: ‘National Leaders of Governance for further education’ has been updated. The latest round of applications to become a National Leader of Governance has closed. Time updated: 12:50pm, 1 February 2023 How we are supporting degree apprenticeships and higher technical education Page summary: Higher Education and Skills Minister Robert Halfon’s speech to University UK’s conference on degree apprenticeships Change made: First published. Time updated: 3:45pm, 1 February 2023 Long-term strategy launched to fix children’s social care Page summary: Government to transform children’s social care, with ambitious plans that put families at the heart of reform Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:15am, 2 February 2023 Secondary accountability measures (including Progress 8 and Attainment 8) Page summary: Information for schools about secondary school accountability measures, including Progress 8 and Attainment 8. Change made: Updated ‘Secondary accountability measures: 2022 guidance’ to reflect revised data. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 February 2023 Statistics: performance tables Page summary: Statistics on the attainment of primary, secondary and post-16 pupils. Change made: ‘16 to 18 school and college performance data in England: 2021 to 2022 (revised)’ has been added to ‘School and college: post-16 (key stage 5)’ section. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 February 2023 A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2022 (revised) Page summary: The attainment of students at the end of their 16 to 18 study in England. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 February 2023 16 to 18 school and college performance data in England: 2021 to 2022 (revised) Page summary: The attainment of students at the end of their 16 to 18 study in England. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 February 2023 Key stage 4 performance 2022 Page summary: Statistics on the achievements of young people at the end of key stage 4 in England, in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Change made: The attached link has revised statistics on the achievements of pupils at the end of key stage 4 in schools. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 February 2023 Statistics: 16 to 19 attainment Page summary: Statistics on the attainment of 16- to 19-year-olds in England, including exam results and performance tables. Change made: ‘16 to 18 school and college performance data in England: 2021 to 2022 (revised)’ has been added to ‘16 to 18 school and college performance tables’ section.’A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2022 (revised)’ had been added to ‘A levels and other 16 to 18 results’. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 February 2023 Secondary school performance data in England: 2021 to 2022 Page summary: The achievements of pupils at key stage 4, at school level, local authority area and in England. Change made: The ‘Secondary school performance data in England: 2021 to 2022’ statistics have been updated with revised data. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 February 2023 Convert to an academy: guidance for sixth-form colleges Page summary: Advice and application form for sixth-form colleges considering becoming a 16 to 19 academy. Change made: Guidance updated to include information for sixth-form colleges designated as having a religious character as regulations now allow them to convert. Also updated to reference guidance for sixth-form college academy converters with an ESFA contract. New application form added for sixth-form colleges designated as having a religious character. Time updated: 10:00am, 2 February 2023 Children’s social care national framework and dashboard Page summary: We’re consulting on the children’s social care national framework and dashboard indicators. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:01am, 2 February 2023 Child and family social worker workforce Page summary: We’d like your views on proposals to introduce national rules on the use of agency child and family social workers in local authority children’s social care. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:02am, 2 February 2023 Children’s social care: Stable Homes, Built on Love Page summary: We are seeking views on our proposals to reform children’s social care. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:03am, 2 February 2023 New school proposals Page summary: Lists of local authorities seeking academy and free school proposers, and of all academies and free schools already set up. Change made: 2 new primary school projects in Staffordshire have been added to ‘Local authorities seeking proposers’ – Tamworth, Dunstall Farm and Tamworth, Golf Course. Time updated: 1:04pm, 2 February 2023 Apply for FE senior pay approval Page summary: Explains the process for colleges to get approval from government for remuneration of £150,000 and over, and bonuses of more than £17,500. Change made: Added a link to recently published guidance to help colleges meet new requirements following reclassification, including for FE senior pay applications. Time updated: 3:15pm, 2 February 2023 Colleges and higher education institutions notices to improve Page summary: Letters issued by ESFA to general further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and higher education institutions with a notice to improve. Change made: ‘Notice to improve: Richmond upon Thames College’ and ‘Financial health notice to improve: Nottingham College’ moved to ‘Closed notices’. Time updated: 4:25pm, 2 February 2023 Academies consolidated annual report and accounts: 2020 to 2021 Page summary: Report on academy school sector expenditure and performance for the year ended 31 August 2021. Change made: Added an accessible version of ‘Academy schools sector in England: consolidated annual report and accounts 2020 to 2021’. Time updated: 4:33pm, 2 February 2023 Higher education student finance 2023 to 2024: equality analysis Page summary: Analysis of how changes made to student finance regulations for the 2023 to 2024 academic year will affect specific protected groups. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:46pm, 2 February 2023 Termination warning notice to Farnborough Grange Nursery and Infant Community School Page summary: Termination warning notice to The Good Shepherd Trust, in relation to Farnborough Grange Nursery and Infant Community School. Change made: First published. Time updated: 5:00pm, 5 January 2023 Termination warning notice to Huish Episcopi Academy Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to the members and directors of Huish Episcopi Academy. Change made: First published. Time updated: 5:00pm, 20 January 2023 Letters to academy trusts about poor performance Page summary: DfE letters to academy trusts about poor or inadequate performance or weaknesses in safeguarding, governance or financial management. Change made: Added termination warning notices to Huish Episcopi Academy and Farnborough Grange Nursery and Infant Community School. Time updated: 11:50am, 3 February 2023 Department for Education commercial pipeline data: 2022 to 2023 Page summary: Commercial pipelines providing a forward look of potential commercial activity within the Department for Education for the 2022 to 2023 financial year. Change made: Added commercial pipeline publication for January 2023. Time updated: 2:07pm, 3 February 2023 Apprenticeships bursary for care leavers Page summary: Details of the bursary payment some apprentices may be entitled to if they are under 25 when they start an apprenticeship and they are or have been in care. Change made: The ‘Apprenticeships care leavers’ bursary guidance’ has been revised to include updated information on the bursary amount, how the bursary is claimed, and signposts to further information. Time updated: 2:14pm, 3 February 2023 Academy trust notices to improve Page summary: Letters issued by Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to academy trusts with a notice to improve. Change made: We have updated the page to add the notice to improve issued to St Aidan’s Church of England Academy. Time updated: 3:00pm, 3 February 2023 Adoption support fund (ASF) Page summary: Local authorities and regional adoption agencies (RAAs) can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive and special guardianship order families. Change made: Added a link to the Kinship charity. Time updated: 4:20pm, 3 February 2023 School closures during the 2023 teacher strike Page summary: A summary of the closures of state-funded schools in England during the 2023 teacher strike. Change made: Updated with regional level data. | ||
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