Weekly update from GOV.UK for: Department for Education Subject knowledge enhancement: an introduction Page summary: Information about subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) support for initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment. Change made: Updated following policy updates to the eligibility criteria for non-UK applicants. Time updated: 2:58pm, 13 March 2023 National Careers Service satisfaction and progression surveys: 2021 to 2022 Page summary: Research looking at customers’ experiences of using the National Careers Service after their call, meeting with an adviser or visit to the website. Change made: First published. Time updated: 3:22pm, 13 March 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: In ‘Local authorities seeking proposers’, Warwick, Myton Gardens in Warwickshire, Tamworth, Dunstall Farm in Staffordshire and Tamworth, Golf Course in Staffordshire have been removed. Airfield Farm in Leicestershire has been added.In ‘Section 6A approved/under consideration schools’, Myton Gardens in Warwickshire has been added to the ‘Schools under consideration’ tab and referred to as Myton Gardens. Tamworth, Dunstall Farm and Tamworth, Golf Course in Staffordshire have been added to the ‘Schools under construction’ tab. Thoresby Vale in Nottinghamshire, Kingsley Fields, Nantwich in Cheshire East and Cringleford, Norfolk have been removed from the ‘Schools under construction’ tab and moved to the ‘Schools approved’ tab. The opening date has been changed from 1 September 2024 to 2025. Time updated: 5:02pm, 13 March 2023 Free schools and UTCs: successful applications Page summary: Details of successful applications for free schools and university technical colleges (UTCs) in the pre-opening stage. Change made: Updated the list of free schools and UTCs in the pre-opening stage for March 2023. Time updated: 12:00pm, 14 March 2023 Media enquiries Page summary: Contact information for the Department for Education’s media team. Change made: Updated the officers in the rebuttals, schools, children and families, post 16 and skills team and the strategy and planning desk. Time updated: 10:17am, 15 March 2023 Share your daily school attendance data Page summary: How schools can share daily attendance data and access attendance reports. Change made: Added ‘date of birth’ to ‘We collect the following data items’. Time updated: 11:16am, 15 March 2023 Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers: how to apply Page summary: Guidance for employers and employer-providers on organisations that are eligible to receive government funding to train apprentices. Change made: Clarification has been added on the application routes and the application forms have been updated. Time updated: 11:54am, 15 March 2023 Childcare: regulatory changes Page summary: We are gathering a range of views to help us reach well-informed and fair decisions on proposed regulatory changes to childcare in England. Change made: Published the government’s response to the consultation. Time updated: 1:35pm, 15 March 2023 Early years education recovery programme Page summary: Information on new continuing professional development, qualifications, and support and guidance for the early years sector, funded by the Department for Education. Change made: Professional development programme phase 3 (PDP3) is now available. Time updated: 2:42pm, 15 March 2023 DfE monthly workforce management information: 2022 to 2023 Page summary: Staff numbers and costs for the Department for Education (DfE) group for the financial year 2022 to 2023. Change made: ‘DfE monthly workforce management information: January 2023’ added. Time updated: 3:35pm, 15 March 2023 Teachers and leaders starting ECF and NPQs Page summary: The number of teachers and leaders starting national professional qualifications (NPQs) and the early career framework in the academic year 2022 to 2023. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 2 March 2023 Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below in England Page summary: An overview of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below for awarding organisations and providers. Change made: Added ‘Post-16 qualifications at level 2 and below from spring 2023’. Time updated: 4:45pm, 15 March 2023 Pupil absence in schools in England: 2021 to 2022 Page summary: This release reports on pupil absence in primary and secondary schools in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 16 March 2023 Statistics: pupil attendance and absence Page summary: Fortnightly pupil attendance statistics and autumn, combined autumn and spring, and annual pupil absence statistics. Change made: Added ‘Pupil absence in schools in England: 2021 to 2022’ to ‘Pupil absence full year release’ section. Time updated: 9:30am, 16 March 2023 Multi-academy trust performance measures (key stages 2, 4 and 5) Page summary: Attainment statistics for pupils across key stages 2, 4 and 5 who attended multi-academy trusts (MATs) in England in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 16 March 2023 Dedicated schools grant: very high deficit intervention Page summary: High needs reforms and savings targets have been agreed for local authorities with the highest dedicated school grant deficits. Change made: Added dedicated schools grant ‘safety valve’ agreements for 2022-2023. Time updated: 9:30am, 16 March 2023 Statistics: GCSEs (key stage 4) Page summary: Statistics on key stage 4 results, including GCSEs. Change made: ‘Multi-academy trust performance measures (key stages 2, 4 and 5)’ added to Multi-academy trust performance measures. Time updated: 9:30am, 16 March 2023 British schools overseas: inspection reports for accredited schools Page summary: Inspection reports for British schools overseas that meet DfE accreditation standards and that are registered on get information about schools (GIAS). Change made: Removed Rashid School for Boys, Latifa School for Girls and Oakley College from ‘British schools overseas: accredited schools inspection reports’. Rashid School for Boys and Latifa School for Girls have closed, and Oakley College no longer wishes to be part of the BSO scheme. Time updated: 11:10am, 16 March 2023 Strengthening families, protecting children programme Page summary: Local authorities’ funding for the children’s social care strengthening families, protecting children (SFPC) programme. Change made: Added ‘Strengthening families protecting children programme: section 31 grant determination letter’ for December 2021, February 2022 and August 2022. Time updated: 2:05pm, 16 March 2023 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 15 and 16 March 2023 teacher strikes’ Time updated: 5:03pm, 16 March 2023 Revised direction issued to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Page summary: Statutory direction issued to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in relation to children’s services. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:00am, 17 March 2023 Solihull 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 Solihull. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:00am, 17 March 2023 Direction issued to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Page summary: Statutory direction issued to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in relation to children’s services. Change made: A revised direction issued in March 2023 replaces this direction. Time updated: 9:00am, 17 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: A revised direction to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council issued in March 2023 is available in ‘Open direction’. It replaces the direction issued in November 2022 which has moved to ‘Closed directions’. Time updated: 9:00am, 17 March 2023 Termination warning notice to Lotus School Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to Champion Education Trust in relation to Lotus School. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:00am, 21 February 2023 Termination warning notice to The Ferns Primary Academy Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to The Kite Academy Trust in relation to The Ferns Primary Academy. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:00am, 22 February 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: Termination warning notices to The Ferns Primary Academy and Lotus School added to ‘Warning notices’. Time updated: 10:00am, 17 March 2023 Alternative provision free schools applications Page summary: A list of partnership applications submitted in the 2022 alternative provision (AP) free schools wave. Change made: First published. Time updated: 11:44am, 17 March 2023 Free school applications Page summary: Applicants proposing to open a free school along with their applications forms, impact assessments and pre-registration inspections notes. Change made: Added ‘Alternative provision free schools applications’. Time updated: 11:45am, 17 March 2023 Higher education short courses: information for learners Page summary: Higher education short courses currently available for learners across England. Change made: Updated ‘Courses available in the higher education short courses trial’. Added information on funding. Weekly update from GOV.UK for: Department for Education Train to teach in England: non-UK applicants Page summary: Find out what you’ll need to train to teach in England, including information about qualifications, visas and immigration, and financial support. Change made: Updated section on fees and financial support and added information about international relocation payments. Time updated: 12:00pm, 6 March 2023 Initial teacher training (ITT) bursary: funding manual Page summary: A training bursary guide for schools and ITT providers. Change made: Added a section on international relocation payments to the funding manual for 2023 to 2024. Time updated: 12:00pm, 6 March 2023 Recruit trainee teachers from overseas: accredited ITT providers Page summary: How accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers can recruit trainees who are not UK or Irish nationals. Change made: Added information about the international relocation payment. Time updated: 12:00pm, 6 March 2023 International relocation payments Page summary: Information about international relocation payments for trainee teachers and teachers of languages and physics from outside the UK. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:00pm, 6 March 2023 Teach in England if you qualified outside the UK Page summary: Find out about the visa and immigration routes, qualifications needed and help available for overseas teachers who trained outside the UK. Change made: Added information about international relocation payments. Time updated: 12:00pm, 6 March 2023 Recruit teachers from overseas Page summary: Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens. Change made: Added information about international relocation payments. Time updated: 12:00pm, 6 March 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: Updated to move Bamford Academy to the list of closed notices. Time updated: 3:00pm, 6 March 2023 Join the Latin Excellence Programme Page summary: This programme funds and supports non-selective state schools to teach Latin at key stages 3 and 4. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:35pm, 6 March 2023 School improvement support Page summary: Professional development and support to help schools develop their leadership, staff and curriculum, so they can improve their results and performance. Change made: Added Latin Excellence Programme to languages section. Time updated: 4:35pm, 6 March 2023 Access support from school hubs Page summary: How school leaders can get support from other schools in their area to improve a specific area of teaching or leadership. Change made: In the subject hubs document, we have removed a section on modern foreign languages CPD and added a section on language hubs. Time updated: 4:35pm, 6 March 2023 Student finance to be radically transformed from 2025 Page summary: New, more flexible system introduced to empower adults to upskill or retrain throughout their working lives. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:15am, 7 March 2023 Higher technical education skills injection fund Page summary: Guidance for providers on the higher technical education (HTE) skills injection fund and a list of the successful applicants for 2022 to 2023. Change made: Added ‘Higher technical education skills injection fund: successful applicants 2022 to 2023’. Time updated: 9:30am, 7 March 2023 Lifelong loan entitlement Page summary: Seeking views on a lifelong loan entitlement for use on modular or full-time study at higher technical and degree levels, in higher and further education providers. Change made: We have added the consultation outcome. Time updated: 9:42am, 7 March 2023 Lifelong loan entitlement: equality analysis Page summary: Analysis of the effect that implementing the lifelong loan entitlement will have on specific protected groups. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:42am, 7 March 2023 Lifelong loan entitlement: impact assessment Page summary: Economic assessment of the impact of the introduction of the lifelong loan entitlement (LLE). Change made: Updated the ‘Lifelong loan entitlement: impact assessment’. Time updated: 9:42am, 7 March 2023 Teach in further education Page summary: Find out how you can become a further education teacher. Change made: Information on FE teacher training bursaries has been updated for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Time updated: 10:00am, 7 March 2023 FE funding: initial teacher education (ITE) bursaries 2023 to 2024 Page summary: Guidance for FE ITE providers about bursary funding for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:00am, 7 March 2023 International qualified teacher status (iQTS): inspection policy Page summary: The Department for Education’s policy for the iQTS inspection regime. Change made: Updated with revised version of ‘International qualified teacher status (iQTS): inspection policy’. Time updated: 3:38pm, 7 March 2023 Apply to join the early adopter programme Page summary: Submit an expression of interest for the early adopter programme to help develop a new early career framework for social workers. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:00pm, 7 March 2023 Review of the evidence on numeracy skills interventions for adults Page summary: A review of the evidence base for interventions intended to improve numeracy skills among adults with below Level 2 qualifications in mathematics. Change made: Added ‘Numeracy skills interventions for adults (19+): a systematic review of the evidence summary’ in the the Welsh language and added Welsh translations to the page. Time updated: 4:15pm, 7 March 2023 Early years initial teacher training: 2022 to 2023 funding guidance Page summary: Funding guidance for early years initial teacher training (EYITT) providers for 2022 to 2023. Change made: ‘Employer incentive’ section updated to clarify that it covers EYITT training (not general training) but not continued professional development. It also says providers must pass all employer incentive funding to the trainee’s employer and keep clear records on how it’s being used. Time updated: 4:20pm, 7 March 2023 Early years initial teacher training: 2023 to 2024 funding guidance Page summary: Funding guidance for early years initial teacher training (EYITT) providers for 2023 to 2024. Change made: ‘Employer incentive’ section updated to clarify that it covers EYITT training (not general training) but not continued professional development. It also says providers must pass all employer incentive funding to the trainee’s employer and keep clear records on how it’s being used. Time updated: 4:20pm, 7 March 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 February 2023. Time updated: 4:32pm, 7 March 2023 School sports given huge boost to level the playing field for next generation of Lionesses Page summary: New standard for school sports will see girls and boys offered the same sports Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:15am, 8 March 2023 Local skills dashboard Page summary: Dashboard showing statistics on local employment and skills in England to support local skills planning and delivery (including local skills improvement plans). Change made: The local skills dashboard is no longer in prototype version and the page has been updated to reflect this. Time updated: 9:14am, 8 March 2023 Supporting Families Page summary: This page shares essential programme delivery and policy guidance for Supporting Families. Change made: Added Ten years of Supporting Families: Supporting Families programme Annual Report 2022-23; Supporting Families Programme: funding allocations by local authority area 2023-2024; and press notice about the allocations. Time updated: 2:30pm, 8 March 2023 DfE external data shares Page summary: Department for Education (DfE) approved data shares with external, third-party organisations. Change made: DfE external data shares for December 2022 have been added. Data for July to September 2022 is available in the archived list. Time updated: 9:30am, 9 March 2023 Pupil attendance in schools Page summary: Data on the levels of attendance and overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Change made: ‘Pupil attendance in schools’ statistics updated to include data covering the period 12 September 2022 to 24 February 2023. Time updated: 9:30am, 9 March 2023 T Level action plan Page summary: How we’re reforming technical education and developing the T Level qualifications for post-16 students. Change made: Uploaded T Level action plan 2022 to 2023. Time updated: 10:00am, 9 March 2023 Introduction of T Levels Page summary: Find out what T Levels courses include and how they work with other qualifications including grading and UCAS points. Change made: Updated ‘Introduction of T Levels’ to reflect revised T Level rollout timetable. Added information on the award of UCAS tariff points to support students who partially achieve T Levels. Time updated: 10:00am, 9 March 2023 T Levels capital fund Page summary: Details on the fund and how to apply. Change made: ‘Specialist equipment allocation (SEA)’ updated as grant allocation letters have been issued. Time updated: 10:00am, 9 March 2023 School land: decisions about disposals Page summary: A summary of the decisions about the disposal of school land. Change made: Amended the wording about the advisory panel’s powers under ‘Other decisions’ to clarify that it does not make decisions, but instead makes recommendation to the Secretary of State. Removed the entry for the Diocese of Lincoln regarding Ludford Primary School (June 2017), as this application was for privately rather than publicly held land. Time updated: 11:59am, 9 March 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 ‘Find a school business professional network’ to include The Trust Network (all regions) and Walsall School Business Leaders (West Midlands). Time updated: 12:04pm, 9 March 2023 Register of end-point assessment organisations Page summary: How to find an end-point assessment organisation (EPAO) for your apprentice and how to apply to join the EPAO register. Change made: ‘Register of end-point assessment organisations’ and ‘Register list of standards’ updated for March 2023. Time updated: 12:21pm, 9 March 2023 Privacy notice for Policy Lab user-centred research, including video interviews Page summary: How Policy Lab user-centred research will use your personal data, and what your rights are. Change made: Changed Data Protection Officer’s details to reflect move of the Policy Lab to Department of Education. Time updated: 12:32pm, 9 March 2023 Disclosure of civil servant roles and salary information Page summary: Information on roles and salaries for members of the Department for Education (DfE) and its arm’s length bodies (ALBs). Change made: Added junior and senior staff data for December 2022. Time updated: 2:30pm, 9 March 2023 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 Andrew McCulloch as Social Work England’s interim chair to ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’. Time updated: 9:30am, 10 March 2023 British schools overseas: inspection reports for accredited schools Page summary: Inspection reports for British schools overseas that meet DfE accreditation standards and that are registered on get information about schools (GIAS). Change made: Added or updated reports for Jeddah Prep and Grammar School, GEMS Founders School Al Mizhar, British School Algiers, Fujairah Private Academy UAE, Leonardo Da Vinci Academy, Children’s International School Lagos, Brighton College Dubai, International School of Creative Science Nad Al Sheba, GEMS Winchester School Dubai, Tanglin Trust School, International School of Creative Science Sharjah, GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail Dubai and Rugby School Thailand. Time updated: 10:49am, 10 March 2023 Termination warning notice to Ashlawn School Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to Transforming Lives Education Trust in relation to Ashlawn School. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:00am, 2 March 2023 Termination warning notice to The Bulwell Academy Page summary: Termination warning notice to the members and trustees of the Creative Education Trust in respect of The Bulwell Academy. Change made: First published. Time updated: 11:00am, 15 February 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 Ashlawn School and The Bulwell Academy. Time updated: 12:00pm, 10 March 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 the information about the systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) validation process and the contact details of validated SSP programme providers. Time updated: 4:14pm, 10 March 2023 Systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) teaching programme validation Page summary: The self-assessment form, essential core criteria and supporting information for SSP programme validation applicants. Change made: Updated the information about the systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) validation process. Time updated: 4:14pm, 10 March 2023 Independent schools: warning notices Page summary: Independent schools currently failing to meet the independent school standards. Change made: | ||
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