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Weekly update from gov.uk for DfE 30 September 2023

 
Weekly update from GOV.​UK for: Department for Education Early-career payments for teachers Page summary:
Eligible chemistry, languages, mathematics and physics teachers can now apply for early-career payments. Change made:
The window to apply for early career payments is now open and eligible teachers can apply. Time updated:
10:00am, 25 September 2023 Teachers: claim back your student loan repayments Page summary:
Eligible biology, chemistry, physics, computing and languages teachers can now claim back student loan repayments. Change made:
The window to apply to claim back student loan repayments is now open and eligible teachers can apply. Time updated:
10:00am, 25 September 2023 Levelling up premium payments for teachers Page summary:
Eligible chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics teachers can now apply for levelling up premium payments. Change made:
The window to apply to claim a levelling up payment is now open and eligible teachers can apply. The ‘List of eligible and non-eligible schools for levelling up premium payment’ in the ‘School eligibility and payment amount’ section and the ‘higher education classification of subjects (HECoS) code’ file in the ‘Qualification’ section have also been updated. Time updated:
10:00am, 25 September 2023 Apply to join the social work early career framework Page summary:
How organisations can get involved with the early adopter programme to help develop a new early career framework for child and family social workers. Change made:
Updated with names of organisations that successfully applied to cohort 1. The guidance has also been updated to reflect that the application window is currently closed. Time updated:
12:00pm, 25 September 2023 PE and sport premium for primary schools Page summary:
How much PE and sport premium funding schools will receive for the academic year 2023 to 2024 and advice on how to spend it. Change made:
Updated the section on academies and free schools to remove mentions of city technology colleges. Clarified that the funding must not be used for capital expenditure except for goods within the de minimis value for purchases set by the school. Time updated:
12:00pm, 25 September 2023 Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templates Page summary:
Schedule of advisory board meetings and meeting preparation templates. Change made:
Updated the dates for the south-east advisory board’s January and February meetings in ‘Schedule of advisory board meetings 2023 to 2024 academic year’. Time updated:
2:03pm, 25 September 2023 Finding an end-point assessment organisation Page summary:
How employers and training providers can find an end-point assessment organisation (EPAO) for their apprentice. Change made:
Updated the ‘List of standards’ for September 2023. Time updated:
3:27pm, 25 September 2023 Apprenticeship provider and assessment register: conditions of acceptance Page summary:
Guidance for training providers and end-point assessment organisations on the conditions for the apprenticeship provider and assessment register (APAR). Change made:
Added a new condition for eligible costs for EPAOs as condition 14. Previous conditions from 14 on to 22 are renumbered as 15 to 23. Time updated:
9:31am, 26 September 2023 Further education initial teacher training reform Page summary:
We are seeking views on proposed reforms to initial teacher training (ITT) for the further education (FE) sector, including changes to public funding. Change made:
Changed consultation closing date from 6 November to 7 November 2023. Time updated:
9:40am, 26 September 2023 Share your daily school attendance data Page summary:
How schools can share daily attendance data. Change made:
Updated ‘How this data will be used’ section with the latest versions of the ‘privacy notice’, ‘data collection principles’ and ‘data protection impact assessment (DPIA)’. Time updated:
10:24am, 26 September 2023 Complaints procedure Page summary:
How we handle your complaints, and advice on how to complain about a school, an early years provider or a children’s social care service. Change made:
Added information on how to complain about a Skills Bootcamp course. Time updated:
9:50am, 27 September 2023 NCCIS management information requirement Page summary:
How local authorities should use the National Client Caseload Information System (NCCIS) to send data on young people’s post-16 activities. Change made:
Added ‘NCCIS management information requirement: 2023 to 2024’. Time updated:
11:38am, 27 September 2023 Get help with flexible working in schools Page summary:
Help to implement flexible working including a toolkit of resources, webinar training and support from flexible working ambassador multi-academy trusts and schools. Change made:
Added information about the flexible working toolkit, including a link to the toolkit and a list of the sector experts who helped develop it. Time updated:
3:20pm, 27 September 2023 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores Page summary:
Approved 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2018 to 2025 school and college performance measures. Change made:
Updated the 16 to 18 discounting guidance. Time updated:
3:48pm, 27 September 2023 Children’s social work workforce census: reports specifications Page summary:
Specifications of children’s social work workforce reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT. Change made:
Updated ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2022 to 2023 COLLECT report specifications’ to add an under 20 age category to ‘Data summary report’, add logic to ‘Continuity report’ and add ‘Continuity report staff details report’ section. Time updated:
4:26pm, 27 September 2023 Families first for children pathfinder: grant determination letter Page summary:
Letter outlining the grant provided to local authorities in England to support delivery of families first for children (FFC) pathfinder projects. Change made:
First published. Time updated:
12:00am, 16 August 2023 Early years stronger practice hubs Page summary:
Information for early years practitioners about stronger practice hubs. Change made:
Added names of 6 early years stronger practice hubs. Removed Adderley Nursery School from West Midlands Heart – Midlands Early Years Stronger Practice Hub. Added Muddy Boots as a partner setting for Yorkshire and Humber Together Early Years Stronger Practice Hub. Added local authority names to the lead settings. Time updated:
5:23pm, 27 September 2023 Thousands more pupils to receive support to improve attendance Page summary:
Government announces four new attendance hubs, widening the support to a total of 400,000 pupils. Change made:
First published. Time updated:
12:15am, 28 September 2023 Employer skills survey: 2022 Page summary:
Official statistics on vacancies, skills gaps and training, from the employer skills survey 2022. Change made:
First published. Time updated:
9:30am, 28 September 2023 Statistics: local authority and school finance Page summary:
Statistics on local authority and school spending on education, including academies and children and young people’s services. Change made:
Added ‘Planned local authority and school expenditure: 2023 to 2024 financial year’. Time updated:
9:30am, 28 September 2023 Planned local authority and school expenditure: 2023 to 2024 financial year Page summary:
Local authority spending plans for education, children’s services and social care. Change made:
First published. Time updated:
9:30am, 28 September 2023 Period product scheme: management information Page summary:
A summary of management information collected on the Department for Education’s period product scheme. Change made:
Added ‘Period product scheme: management information 2022 to 2023 academic year’ and ‘Period product scheme: management information tables 2022 to 2023 academic year’ Time updated:
9:30am, 28 September 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 11 September 2023 to 15 September 2023. Time updated:
9:30am, 28 September 2023 Apply for Department for Education (DfE) personal data Page summary:
How to apply for access to personal data from DfE and its executive agencies. Change made:
Updated the DfE data sharing service application form and guidance, and the individualised learner record, national pupil database and school workforce data tables. Updated the ‘Apply directly to ONS for other key datasets’ section with information about the further education workforce and pupil parent matched dataset. Time updated:
10:00am, 28 September 2023 Improvement notice issued to Hull city council Page summary:
An improvement notice issued due to poor performance in the council’s children’s social care services. Change made:
Updated to show the improvement notice has been lifted and added a link to the new Ofsted report. Time updated:
10:00am, 28 September 2023 Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores Page summary:
Approved key stage 4 qualifications (GCSEs, Technical Awards, AS levels and graded music exams), discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2025 school and college performance tables. Change made:
Replaced 2022 version of ‘Key stage 4 discounting and early entry guidance’ with the 2023 version. Time updated:
3:12pm, 28 September 2023 DfE monthly workforce management information: 2023 to 2024 Page summary:
Staff numbers and costs for the Department for Education (DfE) group for the financial year 2023 to 2024. Change made:
‘DfE monthly workforce management information: August 2023’ was added. Time updated:
3:55pm, 28 September 2023 Apply for qualified teacher status (QTS) if you teach outside the UK Page summary:
Routes to QTS for those with non-UK teaching qualifications or experience and UK citizens with teaching experience who live overseas. Change made:
Updated to remove links to withdrawn pages. Time updated:
4:09pm, 28 September 2023 Awarding qualified teacher status to overseas teachers Page summary:
The Department for Education (DfE) has changed the way we award qualified teacher status (QTS) to teachers from overseas. Change made:
Updated to replace a withdrawn link and clarify the location requirements for teaching experience. Time updated:
4:10pm, 28 September 2023 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:
Updated ‘Free courses for jobs: list of providers’ and removed Education and Training Skills from the south-west. Time updated:
5:01pm, 28 September 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 provide information about key stage 4 performance measures for 2023 to 2024 and plans for the headline EBacc attainment measure. Time updated:
5:36pm, 28 September 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 (September 2023)’. Time updated:
9:30am, 29 September 2023 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 ‘Local authority specifications’ to change the age range to 4 to 16 for Wiltshire. Time updated:
9:39am, 29 September 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:
Replaced the ‘Free school presumption guidance’ and Annexes A, B, C and D with updated versions. Time updated:
9:59am, 29 September 2023 Minister Halfon’s speech at the Council of Europe Page summary:
In a speech at the Council of Europe standing conference of ministers of education, Minister Halfon discussed the the renewal of the civic mission of education. Change made:
First published. Time updated:
10:14am, 29 September 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 Akaal Primary School, Allestree Woodlands School, Barrow Hill Primary Academy, Castle View Primary School, Haven High Academy, Landau Forte Academy Moorhead, New Whittington Community Primary School, Ormiston Denes Academy, Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy, and Weston Favell Academy. Time updated:
10:41am, 29 September 2023 Early education entitlements and funding Page summary:
Information about the 2023 Spring Budget announcement on early years entitlements and associated funding. Change made:
Added ‘Childminder start-up grants scheme update: September 2023’. Time updated:
1:42pm, 29 September 2023 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: July 2023’. Time updated:
2:17pm, 29 September 2023 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: July 2023’. Time updated:
2:18pm, 29 September 2023 Senior mental health lead training Page summary:
Find out how your school or college can apply for a grant and access DfE quality assured training to help develop a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.