| Free school travel: funding allocations Page summary: Funding for local authorities to spend on home to school travel for children from low-income families from 2020 to 2024. Change made: ‘Allocations for extended rights to free travel and general duty to promote sustainable travel: 2020 to 2024’ ‘Extended rights grant allocations financial year 2023 to 2024: explanatory note on methodology’ and ‘Extended rights for home-to-school travel: grant determination letter for financial year 2023 to 2024’ were added. National Tutoring Programme calculator tool: 2022 to 2023 Page summary: Work out how much your school will need to contribute, and track information during the academic year 2022 to 2023 to add to your year-end statement. Change made: Updated all 3 calculator tools to improve the directions. Revised step 3 of the mixed tutoring tab to more clearly show how schools should track their month-by-month funding use. Secondary school performance data in England: 2021 to 2022 Page summary: The achievements of pupils at key stage 4, at school level, multi-academy trust level, local authority area and in England. Change made: Updated ‘Secondary school performance data in England: 2021 to 2022’ with revised multi-academy trust data. 16 to 18 school, college and multi-academy trust 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: Added data for multi-academy trusts. Taking Teaching Further programme Page summary: How further education providers can apply for round 5 of the Taking Teaching Further (TTF) programme. Change made: Applications for the TTF programme are currently closed. Department for Education is now responsible for the delivery of TTF, replacing the Education and Training Foundation (ETF). Research reports: template and style guide Page summary: The template and style guide for contractors to use when writing research reports for the Department for Education (DfE). Change made: Updated the research report template and guidance with the latest accessibility advice. FE capital funding Page summary: An overview of capital funding for post-16 education providers, the type of funding available, what it can be used for and when to apply. Change made: Added information about allocations for the final stage of the FE capital transformation fund programme. Schools financial value standard (SFVS) and assurance statement Page summary: This guidance helps schools and local authorities meet basic standards for good financial health and resource management. Change made: Added a new version of the ‘Template for recording related party transactions’. Users can enter start dates for transactions from 01 April 2022 in this version. Direction issued to Herefordshire Council Page summary: Statutory direction issued to Herefordshire Council in relation to children’s services. Change made: Added a link to the revised direction issued in March 2023 that replaces this direction. Herefordshire children’s services: commissioner report Page summary: An independent report on the delivery of children’s services from the Secretary of State’s Children’s Services Commissioner in Herefordshire. Revised direction issued to Herefordshire Council (March 2023) Improvement notices and directions Page summary: Improvement notices and directions about children’s services issued to councils by the Department for Education. Change made: The ‘Revised direction issued to Herefordshire Council (March 2023)’ has been added to the ‘Open directions’ section. Education Sector Advisory Group minutes Page summary: Minutes from cross governmental group working to increase international opportunities for UK organisations in the education sector. Change made: Added Education Sector Advisory Group meeting minutes for 2 November 2022.Transformational reform begins for children and young people with SEND Page summary: Plan for better, fairer access to high quality special educational needs and disabilities support Change made: NEET age 16 to 24: 2022 Page summary: Estimates from the Labour Force Survey of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) in England. Statistics: NEET and participation Page summary: Young people’s participation in education, employment and training and those not in education, employment or training (NEET). Change made: SEND and alternative provision improvement plan Page summary: Sets out our plans to change the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision system in England. SEND review: right support, right place, right time Page summary: We’re seeking views on our green paper about the changes we want to make to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision (AP) system in England. Change made: Added ‘Independent analysis of the consultation responses to the SEND review: right support, right place, right time’ and a link to the SEND and alternative provision improvement plan. Mandatory qualifications: specialist teachers Page summary: Mandatory qualifications for specialist teachers of pupils with hearing impairment, vision impairment or multi-sensory impairment. Change made: We have added a new section and documents for ‘Specifications for mandatory qualifications: from 1 September 2023’. We have added a list of providers who will offer the mandatory qualification in sensory impairment (MQSI) from September 2023. Special free schools: local authority applications Page summary: List of local authorities who applied to open a special free school in the 2022 special free schools wave, and those who were successful. Change made: Updated ‘Local authority applications to open a special free school: 2022’ to include a list of the local authorities whose applications were successful in the 2022 special free schools wave. Apply to open a special free school Page summary: Sets out the process to apply to set up a new special free school. Change made: Updated the page details to include a link to the list of successful local authorities applications for the 2022 special free schools wave. Further education corporations and sixth-form college corporations: governance guide Page summary: Legal and regulatory requirements and recommended practice that apply to further education (FE) and sixth-form college corporations. Change made: Updated ‘Executive pay’ section to reflect new senior pay controls. Added new section on special educational needs and disabilities to ‘Compliance’. Revised financial notice to improve: Brooklands College Page summary: A revised financial notice to improve issued to Brooklands College by the Department for Education. Change made: Added the revised notice sent in February 2023. Colleges and higher education institutions notices to improve Page summary: Letters issued to general further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and higher education institutions with a notice to improve. Change made: Added the ‘Revised financial notice to improve: Brooklands College’ to ‘Open notices’. Cost barriers to learning at Level 3 Page summary: Understanding the cost barriers to Level 3 learning and how this impacts decision-making about whether to take up learning. Change made: An introduction to the Prevent Duty in higher education (HE) training materials Page summary: An introduction for staff and other members of higher education institutions on the Prevent statutory duty. Change made: Updated, as from 1 April 2023 the online tracked learning module and supported online SCORM files will no longer be available. Adding Prevent for HE e-learning to a learning management system Page summary: Guidance for institutions on adding the e-learning module to their learning management system, modifying the files provided, or using the online training. Change made: Updated, as from 1 April 2023 only ‘offline’ SCORM files for ‘The Prevent Duty in higher education: an introduction’ will be available. Added a link to supporting Home Office Prevent training. The Prevent Duty in higher education (HE): training and guidance for practitioners Page summary: Training materials and guidance on the Prevent Duty for those working in higher education (HE). Change made: From 1 April 2023, the online Prevent introduction for higher education e-learning module the ‘online’ SCORM files will no longer be available. Added guidance about alternative training tracking options. German given boost as part of new schools language programme Page summary: New flagship language programme launched, designed to boost the quality of language lessons in primary and secondary schools Change made: Department for Education non-executive appointments Page summary: Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies. Change made: Added the appointment of Holly Price as a Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) board member to ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’. Local authority interactive tool (LAIT) Page summary: An interactive spreadsheet for comparing data about children and young people across all local authorities in England. Change made: ‘Local authority interactive tool’ and ‘Local authority interactive tool: version log’ have been updated. Apply to provide international qualified teacher status Page summary: Information for English initial teacher training (ITT) providers about the Department for Education (DfE) international qualified teacher status roll-out. Change made: Updated the attachment ‘Withdrawing iQTS provider approval’ to clarify that all providers need to be domestically accredited to deliver iQTS. Recruit an FE governor Page summary: Explains the process that further education (FE) colleges should follow when recruiting new governors through the FE governor recruitment service. Change made: We have added the ‘FE governor recruitment service nomination form’. Children’s social care providers: fees and inspections 2023 Page summary: We’re seeking views on changes to Ofsted fees for children’s social care providers and a minimum inspection frequency for secure 16 to 19 academies. Change made: Published the government’s response to the consultation. Termination warning notice to South Wigston High School Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to Learning without Limits Academy Trust in relation to South Wigston High School. Change made: First published. Termination warning notice to Beis Yaakov Jewish High School Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to the Beis Yaakov Jewish High School Academy Trust in relation to Beis Yaakov Jewish High School. Termination warning notice to Beckfoot Oakbank Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to Beckfoot Trust in relation to Beckfoot Oakbank by the Department for Education. Change made: First published. 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 Beis Yaakov Jewish High School, South Wigston High School and Beckfoot Oakbank to ‘Warning notices’. School closures during the 2023 teacher strikes Page summary: A summary of the closures of state-funded schools in England during the 2023 teacher strikes. Change made: Added ‘Ad-hoc notice: school closure during the 28 February to 2 March 2023 regional teacher strikes’. | ||
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