| Weekly update from GOV.UK for: Department for Education 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 11 reports for schools which are new to the list. Updated 6 reports for schools which were already on the list. Time updated: 10:19am, 27 August 2024 Teach in further education Page summary: Find out how you can become a further education teacher. Change made: Updated the list of available qualifications in the ‘Find a teaching qualification’ section. Time updated: 10:49am, 27 August 2024 DfE and TPS accounting officer system statement 2024 Page summary: Report setting out the accountability relationships and processes in the DfE and Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), and the organisations that receive funding. Change made: Updated the accounting officer system statement for the Department for Education and Teachers’ Pension Scheme (England and Wales). Time updated: 3:17pm, 27 August 2024 Improvement notice issued to Suffolk County Council: May 2024 Page summary: An improvement notice issued to Suffolk County Council following an Ofsted inspection in November 2023. Change made: First published. Time updated: 3:29pm, 27 August 2024 Improvement notices and directions Page summary: Improvement notices and directions about children’s services issued to councils by the Department for Education. Change made: Added ‘Improvement notice issued to Suffolk County Council: May 2024’ to the open notices section. Time updated: 3:30pm, 27 August 2024 Research on parent and pupil attitudes towards the use of AI in education Page summary: This report details findings from a collaboration between DSIT and DfE to deliver a programme of deliberative research exploring parent and pupil attitudes to the use of AI in education. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:01am, 28 August 2024 Teachers to get more trustworthy AI tech as generative tools learn from new bank of lesson plans and curriculums, helping them mark homework and save time Page summary: The UK government announced a new project today that will enhance AI’s ability to assist teachers in marking work and planning lessons. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:15am, 28 August 2024 Generative AI in education: user research and technical report Page summary: Reports on the insights from teachers, leaders and pupils on the potential uses of generative artificial intelligence in education. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 28 August 2024 Using technology in education Page summary: Guidance, support and policy documents for education providers on the use of technology in education. Change made: Added ‘Generative AI in education: user research and technical report’. Time updated: 9:47am, 28 August 2024 Local skills improvement plans and employer representative bodies Page summary: Links to the local skills improvement plans for each area of the country and details of the designated employer representative body that leads on the plan. Change made: Updated ‘Local skills improvement plans and designated employer representative bodies’ to change the name of the designated ERB for Liverpool City Region and the dates from which the ERB designations came into effect. Added further information about the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. Time updated: 12:00pm, 28 August 2024 Data protection in schools Page summary: The policies and processes schools and multi-academy trusts need to protect personal data and respond effectively to a personal data breach. Change made: Data protection policies and procedures – Guidance has been updated on privacy notices. Time updated: 12:08pm, 28 August 2024 Schools block national funding formula: split sites funding Page summary: Schools eligible for split sites funding and numbers of additional sites that qualify for the basic and distance elements of the funding. Change made: ‘Schools block national funding formula: split sites funding’ has been updated for 2025 to 2026. Time updated: 1:48pm, 28 August 2024 Minister Morgan’s GEIS Speech Page summary: Minister Morgan’s speech made at the Global Education and Innovation Summit in the Republic of Korea Change made: First published. Time updated: 3:17pm, 28 August 2024 Birmingham City Council’s SEND service: commissioner’s report Page summary: Independent reports and recommendations from the commissioner for SEND services in Birmingham. Change made: Added ‘Improving special educational needs and disability (SEND) services in Birmingham: third report’. Time updated: 9:30am, 29 August 2024 DfE and TPS main estimate memorandum 2024 to 2025 Page summary: This memorandum provides information on the Department for Education and Teachers’ Pension Scheme budgets as included within the 2024 to 2025 main estimates. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:00am, 29 August 2024 Make a claim through the risk protection arrangement (RPA) Page summary: Information for public sector schools that are existing members of the RPA about membership rules and how to make a claim. Change made: Replaced ‘Academy trusts: RPA membership rules’ and ‘Church academies: RPA membership rules with updated versions for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. Time updated: 11:00am, 29 August 2024 Join the risk protection arrangement (RPA) for schools Page summary: How public sector schools can join the risk protection arrangement (RPA), an alternative to commercial insurance, which may save time and money. Change made: Updated the figures for academies’ annual costs and the dates of the coverage period for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. Time updated: 11:00am, 29 August 2024 Risk protection arrangement (RPA) summary provisioning analysis Page summary: Summary risk provisioning analysis for the Department for Education. Change made: Added ‘Risk assessment arrangement provisioning summary 31 December 2023’. Time updated: 11:00am, 29 August 2024 Common basic data set (CBDS): database Page summary: The latest common basic data set (CBDS) and version control log for use by software suppliers developing management information systems. Change made: Updated the common basic data set (CBDS) database. The changes are listed in the version history tab. Time updated: 11:34am, 29 August 2024 Adult education budget: devolved grant determination letters 2024 Page summary: Letters to devolved areas outlining adult education budget (AEB) and free courses for jobs (FCFJ) funding for the 2024 to 2025 financial year. Change made: First published. Time updated: 3:38pm, 29 August 2024 Adult education budget: devolved grant determination letters Page summary: Letters to devolved areas outlining adult education budget (AEB) and free courses for jobs (FCFJ) funding. Change made: First published. Time updated: 3:38pm, 29 August 2024 DfE and executive agency spend over £25,000: 2024 to 2025 Page summary: Spending over £25,000 by the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies during the financial year 2024 to 2025. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE and executive agency ePCS spend over £500: 2023 to 2024 Page summary: Spending by electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS) over £500 in the 2023 to 2024 financial year. Change made: Added Department for Education and executive agency spend over £500 by ePCS, January to March 2024. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 Teachers’ pension scheme payments: 2024 to 2025 Page summary: Teachers’ pension scheme payments made on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE) in the 2024 to 2025 financial year. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE: department and executive agency spend over £25,000 Page summary: Documents on Department for Education and executive agency spend over £25,000. Change made: Added ‘DfE and executive agency spend over £25,000: 2024 to 2025’. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, January to March 2024 Page summary: Data on gifts that ministers gave and received, their external meetings and any overseas travel. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings Page summary: All data on gifts that Department for Education ministers gave and received, their external meetings and any overseas travel. Change made: Added ‘DfE: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, January to March 2024’. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 Teachers’ pension scheme Page summary: Documents about the teachers’ pension scheme, including the changes that came into effect in April 2015. Change made: Added ‘Teachers’ pension scheme payments: 2024 to 2025’ to ‘Payment data’ section. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE: business expenses, hospitality and meetings for senior officials Page summary: Collection of data on business expenses, hospitality and meetings for senior civil servants at the Department for Education (DfE). Change made: Added ‘DfE: senior officials’ business expenses and hospitality, January to March 2024’. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE: senior officials’ business expenses and hospitality, January to March 2024 Page summary: Data on senior officials’ business and hospitality expenses and meetings with external organisations. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE: business appointment rules advice Page summary: Summary of advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents. Change made: Added ‘January to March 2024 business appointment rules’. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 DfE monthly workforce management information: 2024 to 2025 Page summary: Staff numbers and costs for the Department for Education (DfE) group for the financial year 2024 to 2025. Change made: Added ‘DfE monthly workforce management information: July 2024’. Time updated: 4:00pm, 29 August 2024 Regional Prevent education coordinators Page summary: How regional Prevent education coordinators (RPECs) can help education providers with the Prevent duty. Change made: First published. Time updated: 5:05pm, 29 August 2024 Independent special schools and post-16 institutions Page summary: Independent schools for pupils with special educational needs or disabilities, which have been approved under section 41 of the Children and Families Act. Change made: Updated ‘Special schools and colleges approved under section 41 in England and Wales’. Time updated: 10:00am, 30 August 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 2024 to 2025 academic year. Change made: Updates to ‘Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting advice – 2024 to 2025’, as follows. Removed out-of-date references in C1.3 Suitability and C3.3 Legislation. Clarified time allowances in C1.4 ITT Recruitment practices. Added a footnote to Table 1 in C2.1 Programme structure. Clarified references and expectations to support part-time courses and flexibility in C2.4 School placements and C2.5 Mentoring. Updated the resource link in C3.1 Management. Clarified the wording on Teachers’ Standards in C3.4 Quality assurance.Removed ‘Initial teacher training: criteria and supporting advice – 2023 to 2024’. Time updated: 10:59am, 30 August 2024 Department for Education non-executive appointments Page summary: Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies. Change made: Added School Teachers’ Review Body: chair and members to ‘Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025’. Time updated: 1:00pm, 30 August 2024 Government funded childcare offer to kick in from next week Page summary: Hundreds of thousands of parents of children from nine months old take up new 15 government funded hours of early education from Monday Change made: First published. Time updated: 1:20pm, 30 August 2024 Early years qualifications achieved in the United Kingdom Page summary: Lists of qualifications that meet DfE’s criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage framework staff:child ratios. Change made: Updated ‘Early years qualifications achieved in the United Kingdom: check list’ with newly approved qualifications. Time updated: 1:59pm, 30 August 2024 Apply to the APAR as an apprenticeship training provider Page summary: How to apply to join the apprenticeship provider and assessment register (APAR) to receive government funding to train apprentices. Change made: Updated the section ‘Supporting provider route’ and updated ‘APAR application guidance’ in the section ‘Apply to the APAR after being invited’. Time updated: 3:19pm, 30 August 2024 Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs Page summary: Information on all academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs) open in England, and those in the process of opening. Change made: Updated the list of open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs, and academy projects in development, to include July and August 2024. |
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