| Weekly update from GOV.UK for: Department for Education Primary assessments: future dates Page summary: This page summarises future assessment dates in primary schools, to assist schools with their forward planning. Change made: Added dates and links for schools carrying out the Department for Education’s early years foundation stage framework profile assessment in primary schools. Time updated: 9:02am, 12 February 2024 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 ‘FE and sixth-form college corporations: governance guide’. Added a link to local skills improvement plans statutory guidance. Made updates to accountability agreements and local needs duty in ‘duty to review provision’ section. Clarified how often boards must conduct self-assessment in ‘governance reviews’ section. Added resources to ‘Further reading’ section, on positive behaviours and estate management. Time updated: 4:42pm, 12 February 2024 Leading teacher development national professional qualification Page summary: A course to help teachers learn how to become a teacher educator and successfully support teachers in their school to expand their skills. Change made: The NPQ start date has been updated to February 2024. Time updated: 5:52pm, 12 February 2024 Leading teaching national professional qualification Page summary: A course to help teachers learn how to lead the teaching and learning of a subject, year group or phase. Change made: Updated NPQ start date to February 2024. Time updated: 5:56pm, 12 February 2024 Leading behaviour and culture national professional qualification Page summary: A course to help teachers learn how to create a culture of good behaviour and high expectations in which staff and pupils thrive. Change made: Updated NPQ start date to February 2024. Time updated: 5:58pm, 12 February 2024 Senior leadership national professional qualification Page summary: A course to help teachers and school leaders develop leadership knowledge and expertise to improve outcomes for teachers and pupils in their school. Change made: Updated NPQ start date to February 2024. Time updated: 6:02pm, 12 February 2024 Executive leadership national professional qualification Page summary: A course to help school leaders develop the expertise needed to be an outstanding leader, leading improvements across a group of schools or multi-academy trust. Change made: Updated NPQ start date to February 2024. Time updated: 6:04pm, 12 February 2024 Providers delivering T Levels and the T Level foundation year Page summary: Details of providers registered to deliver T Levels and providers intending to deliver the T Level foundation year. Change made: Added an updated version of ‘T Levels provider list’. Time updated: 9:30am, 13 February 2024 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: Added new ‘Making significant changes to an academy’ guidance, applicable from April 2024. Time updated: 10:00am, 13 February 2024 Leading literacy national professional qualification Page summary: A course to help teachers learn how to effectively teach and promote literacy across the whole school, year group, key stage or phase. Change made: Updated the NPQ start date to February 2024. Time updated: 12:25pm, 13 February 2024 Headship national professional qualification Page summary: A course to help school leaders and headteachers develop the knowledge behind expert school leadership and apply it to become an outstanding headteacher. Change made: Updated the NPQ start date to February 2024. Time updated: 12:30pm, 13 February 2024 Teachers’ pension scheme payments: 2023 to 2024 Page summary: Teachers’ pension scheme payments made on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE) in the 2023 to 2024 financial year. Change made: Added ‘Teachers’ pension scheme payments: December 2023’. Time updated: 1:36pm, 13 February 2024 DfE and executive agency spend over £25,000: 2023 to 2024 Page summary: Spending over £25,000 by the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies during the financial year 2023 to 2024. Change made: Added ‘Department for Education and executive agency spend: December 2023’. Time updated: 1:36pm, 13 February 2024 Independent schools: warning notices and enforcement letters Page summary: Schools currently failing to meet the independent school standards. Change made: Updated ‘Independent schools: warning notices’ with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 January 2024. Time updated: 1:54pm, 13 February 2024 Qualifications attracting high value courses premium Page summary: Lists the qualifications that attract the high value course premium in the 16 to 19 funding formula. Change made: Added ‘Qualifications attracting high value courses premium for the 2024 to 2025 allocations’. Time updated: 2:00pm, 13 February 2024 Flexible working in schools Page summary: Updated non-statutory guidance for employers and staff who want to make arrangements for flexible working. Change made: ‘Flexible working in schools’ guidance will be updated in April 2024 to align with the new flexible working law when is comes into force. Time updated: 3:47pm, 13 February 2024 Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templates Page summary: Schedule of advisory board meetings and meeting preparation templates. Change made: The London advisory board’s May meeting will now be on 16 May. It was previously scheduled for 23 May. Time updated: 4:44pm, 13 February 2024 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: Updated ‘Local authorities seeking proposers’: a primary school in Ipswich has been added. Time updated: 5:29pm, 13 February 2024 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 February 2024. Time updated: 9:30am, 14 February 2024 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: Updated ‘Local authority interactive tool’ and ‘Local authority interactive tool: version log’. Time updated: 11:27am, 14 February 2024 Fostering recruitment and retention programme grant determination Page summary: Section 31 grant determination letter sent to the lead local authorities of regional cluster groups selected for funding through the investment in fostering reform. Change made: First published. Time updated: 1:09pm, 14 February 2024 Local authority delivery support funding Page summary: Delivery support funding for financial year 2023 to 2024 to support local authorities meet costs associated with rolling out the expanded early year entitlements. Change made: ‘Local authority allocations’ document updated to correct allocation amounts for Cambridgeshire and Central Bedfordshire. Time updated: 1:59pm, 14 February 2024 Wraparound childcare: guidance for local authorities Page summary: Explains the role of local authorities and the funding they’ll get to expand the availability of wraparound care in their areas from September 2024. Change made: Updated ‘Annex C: local authority capacity delivery plan template’: duplicate column deleted and removed incorrect formulas. Time updated: 2:34pm, 14 February 2024 British schools overseas: inspection reports for accredited schools Page summary: Inspection reports for British schools overseas that meet DfE accreditation standards and are registered on Get information about schools (GIAS). Change made: Added International School of Flanders, Egypt British International School, Doha British School – Ain Khaled, GEMS Cambridge International School, Star International School Mirdif and The British School of Tashkent. Updated Caxton College. Time updated: 3:58pm, 14 February 2024 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 add North Warwickshire School Business Professional Network and SWIFT SBM Professional Community, and update the contact details for Cheshire Finance Network and HASBM. Time updated: 4:16pm, 14 February 2024 Request for regulators to publish an update on their strategic approach to AI: Secretary of State letters Page summary: Letters requesting a set of regulators to update their strategic approach to AI, with the intention of increasing the transparency around how they are implementing the AI Regulation White Paper proposals. Change made: First published. Time updated: 7:52am, 15 February 2024 Apprenticeships: February 2024 Page summary: Monthly apprenticeship starts in England from August to November 2023. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 15 February 2024 Statistics: further education and skills Page summary: Statistics on participation and learner outcomes in the further education and skills sector, including apprenticeships, reported from January 2014 to date. Change made: Added ‘Apprenticeships: February 2024’ to ‘Latest releases’. Time updated: 9:30am, 15 February 2024 Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting advice Page summary: Mandatory guidance on the criteria that organisations must meet to provide initial teacher training in the 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 academic years. Change made: Updates to ‘Initial teacher training: criteria and supporting advice – 2024 to 2025’: updated ‘Fee-charging arrangements’ to reflect changes to funding regulations. Updated C1.2 Degree criteria to correct reference to the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF). Changes have been made for clarity in C1.4 ITT recruitment practices for reference checks, and in C2.2 Intensive training and practice for intensive training and practice taking place in placement schools. Updated C2.5 Mentoring to clarify consideration of prior learning, and added footnote to minimum time allocations table. Renamed C2.6 from ‘Assessment of programmes’ to ‘Assessment’. Hyperlinks have been updated throughout the document. Time updated: 9:30am, 15 February 2024 Special educational needs person level survey: technical specification Page summary: Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities completing returns for the 2024 and 2025 special educational needs person level survey (SEN2). Change made: ‘Special educational needs person level technical specification 2025’ has been updated. Changes are described in the version history. Time updated: 10:59am, 15 February 2024 Independent schools: Inspections Page summary: Letters from the Department for Education to Ofsted and ISI in relation to the inspection of independent schools and joint working. Change made: Updated ‘Ofsted Standard Inspection Cycle Letter’ with new version. Time updated: 11:07am, 15 February 2024 DfE major projects: appointment letters for Senior Responsible Owners Page summary: DfE appointment letters for Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) Senior Responsible Owners (SROs). Change made: Replaced ‘T Levels: SRO re-appointment letter’ with ‘T Levels: SRO appointment letter’. Time updated: 11:34am, 15 February 2024 Turing Scheme: international study and work placements Page summary: Guidance on funding for international study and work placements through the Turing Scheme, for schools, further education and higher education providers. Change made: Updated the ‘Turing Scheme: international study and work placements’ page to state that applications are now open.Updated the ‘Overview of the Turing Scheme’ page to include the return journey in the available funding section.Updated pages ‘Turing Scheme: guidance for schools’, ‘Turing Scheme: guidance for further education providers’ and ‘Turing Scheme: guidance for higher education providers’ to align messaging on organisational support and funding.Temporarily removed Welsh language version to be updated. Time updated: 12:58pm, 15 February 2024 Turing Scheme: apply for funding for international placements Page summary: Information on applying for funding for international study and work placements for schools, further education providers and higher education providers. Change made: Updated the ‘Turing Scheme: apply for funding for international placements’ page to reflect current Turing Scheme dates and processes.Added links to the assessment questions and grant calculator.Temporarily removed Welsh language version to be updated. Time updated: 12:59pm, 15 February 2024 DfE senior management meetings Page summary: Summaries of the Department for Education’s board meetings. Change made: Added ‘Board meeting: 7 December 2023’. Time updated: 1:46pm, 15 February 2024 Explaining Prevent to staff and students in higher education Page summary: Guidance for those with responsibility for ensuring compliance with the Prevent duty in higher education. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:00am, 16 February 2024 Multiply campaign: communications toolkit and logos Page summary: Communication guidance, logos and link to the ‘Skills campaign toolkits’ page. Change made: Updated ‘Multiply communications toolkit’, removed the outdated ‘Multiply social media assets’ zip file and added new ‘Multiply logos’ zip file. Time updated: |
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