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| Weekly update from GOV.UK for: Department for Education Exemptions from the EYFS for providers and individual children Page summary: What early years settings must do to apply for an exemption from the early years foundation stage (EYFS). Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:00am, 9 October 2023 First ever hackathon in education to explore AI Page summary: Hackathon to test how artificial intelligence could reduce workloads and drive up standards. Change made: Correcting a typo Time updated: 11:14am, 9 October 2023 Early years foundation stage profile handbook Page summary: Guidance on completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) profile assessment in the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Change made: Updated the ‘early years foundation stage profile handbook’ for 2024. Time updated: 1:34pm, 9 October 2023 National Citizen Service (NCS): guidance for schools and colleges Page summary: How to use NCS in a school or college to help develop students’ skills and confidence. Change made: Replaced ‘National Citizen Service: guidance for schools and colleges’ with a new version reflecting the NCS strategy for 2023 to 2025. Time updated: 4:11pm, 9 October 2023 Children looked after return 2024 to 2025: technical specifications Page summary: Data submission specifications for the children looked after (CLA) return for 2024 to 2025. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:22pm, 9 October 2023 Children looked after return 2024 to 2025: guide Page summary: Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2024 to 2025. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:24pm, 9 October 2023 Children looked after return: guide to submitting data Page summary: How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual children looked after return (also known as SSDA903). Change made: The 2024 to 2025 return guide for local authorities and technical specification have been added. The 2023 to 2024 return dates have been added. Time updated: 4:29pm, 9 October 2023 School and college security Page summary: Guidance to help schools and colleges manage their security effectively so they can meet their obligations. Change made: Updated the further guidance section of ‘School and college security’, and added a link to the Youth Endowment Fund toolkit. Time updated: 4:56pm, 9 October 2023 School census 2023 to 2024: technical information Page summary: Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2023 to 2024 school census data. Change made: Updated the ‘School census 2023 to 2024: business and technical specification’. Changes are listed in the version history under Annex H. Time updated: 5:18pm, 9 October 2023 £196 million to support new trainee teachers Page summary: Teacher recruitment will see a huge boost this academic year with £196 million to attract more teachers across key subjects. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:01am, 10 October 2023 International relocation payments: guidance for ITT providers Page summary: Information for ITT providers and schools about international relocation payments for trainee teachers and teachers of languages and physics from outside the UK. Change made: Added information about the extension of the IRP pilot for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. Time updated: 12:15am, 10 October 2023 Funding: initial teacher training (ITT) Page summary: Funding guidance for schools and ITT providers including bursaries, scholarships and salaried route grants. Change made: Added ‘Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2024 to 2025’ Time updated: 12:15am, 10 October 2023 Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision Page summary: A summary of the delivery of commitments in the transforming children and young people’s mental health provision green paper. Change made: Added a report on the ‘Mental health support team school and college survey’. Time updated: 9:30am, 10 October 2023 Early years census: technical specification Page summary: Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the early years census 2024. Change made: Updated the ‘Early years census 2024: business and technical specification’. Changes are listed in the version history. Time updated: 12:52pm, 10 October 2023 Children in need census 2024 to 2025: guide Page summary: Guide for local authorities submitting children in need census 2024 to 2025 returns. Change made: First published. Time updated: 11:43am, 11 October 2023 Children in need census 2024 to 2025: COLLECT reports specifications Page summary: Specifications of children in need census reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT. Change made: First published. Time updated: 11:43am, 11 October 2023 Children in need census: guide to submitting data Page summary: How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census. Change made: 2023 to 2024 census dates and 2024 to 2025 census guides have been added. Time updated: 11:43am, 11 October 2023 Help and support for colleges Page summary: Information about the range of help and support available from the FE Commissioner, Department for Education and delivery partners. Change made: Added ‘Effective practice in approaching cultural change in colleges’ guide to ‘Other helpful resources’ section. Time updated: 1:46pm, 11 October 2023 Access your school attendance data Page summary: Guidance on how to use the view your education data service to access the monitor your school attendance tool. Change made: Added links to the ‘View your education data’, ‘How to-register for an IDAMS account’ and ‘DfE Sign-in’ pages. Time updated: 2:17pm, 11 October 2023 Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF) award recipients Page summary: Successful applicants who applied to the Trust Capacity Fund in the 2019 to 2025 funding rounds. Change made: Updated ‘Trust Capacity Fund award recipients 2022 to 2023’ and added ‘Trust Capacity Fund award recipients 2023 to 2025’. Time updated: 3:03pm, 11 October 2023 Apply for the trust capacity fund Page summary: Apply for funding to help multi-academy trusts develop their capacity and take on underperforming schools, particularly in education investment areas. Change made: Added link to trust capacity fund award recipients for 2019 to 2023. Time updated: 3:03pm, 11 October 2023 Apply for the trust establishment and growth fund Page summary: Apply for funding to support the creation of a new multi-academy trust (MAT) or to expand an existing MAT into a new area. Change made: Added link to trust capacity fund award recipients for 2019 to 2023. Time updated: 3:03pm, 11 October 2023 Apprenticeships and traineeships: October 2023 Page summary: Monthly apprenticeship starts in England from August 2022 to July 2023. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 12 October 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 29 September 2023. Time updated: 9:30am, 12 October 2023 Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2023 Page summary: Provisional information on the 2023 phonics screening check and assessments at key stage 1, including breakdowns by pupil characteristics. Change made: First published. Time updated: 9:30am, 12 October 2023 Statistics: key stage 1 Page summary: Statistics on national curriculum assessments at key stage 1 and phonics screening check results. Change made: Added, ‘Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2023’. Time updated: 9:30am, 12 October 2023 Condition Data Collection 2 (CDC2) programme Page summary: Find out about the CDC2 programme and when preliminary meetings and school site visits will take place. Change made: Added ‘Confirmed tranche 7 and tranche 8 list: CDC2 programme’. Time updated: 9:30am, 12 October 2023 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 and traineeships: October 2023’ to ‘Latest releases’. Time updated: 9:30am, 12 October 2023 More primary school pupils meet reading standards Page summary: Primary school pupils show improvement in their reading ability as attainment in this year’s reading assessment increases since last year. Change made: First published. Time updated: 11:53am, 12 October 2023 Department for Education non-executive appointments Page summary: Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies. Change made: Updated ‘Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024’ with the appointment of Sir Martyn Oliver as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Time updated: 12:00pm, 12 October 2023 Sir Martyn Oliver confirmed as the next Ofsted chief inspector Page summary: The privy council has confirmed today that they have approved Sir Martyn Oliver as the next HMCI for Ofsted. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:01pm, 12 October 2023 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: We have updated the ‘ Request an invitation to apply to the APAR form’ and ‘Application route 1: gaps in provision’ section. Time updated: 12:51pm, 12 October 2023 Statistics at DfE Page summary: The Department for Education publishes official statistics on education and children. Change made: Annoucement for foundation years ad hoc statistics released on 19 October 2023 at 9:30am has been added to ‘Upcoming ad hoc statistics and data releases ‘. Time updated: 1:40pm, 12 October 2023 Subject knowledge enhancement: an introduction Page summary: Information about subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) support for initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment. Change made: Updated for academic year 2023 to 2024. Time updated: 3:15pm, 12 October 2023 School-level annual school census: technical information Page summary: Technical specification and validation rules describing the requirements for the school-level annual school census (SLASC). Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:45pm, 12 October 2023 Termination warning notice to Smith’s Wood Academy Page summary: Termination warning notice to the Fairfax Multi Academy Trust in relation to Smith’s Wood Academy. Change made: First published. Time updated: 10:00am, 11 September 2023 Termination warning notice to Meole Brace School Page summary: Termination warning notice issued to TrustEd CSAT Alliance in relation to Meole Brace School. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:00am, 25 September 2023 Termination warning notice to St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School Page summary: Termination warning notice to the Mater Christi Multi Academy Trust in relation to St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School. Change made: First published. Time updated: 12:00am, 22 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 City of Peterborough Academy, Fir Vale School, Meole Brace School, Smith’s Wood Academy and St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School. Time updated: 10:00am, 13 October 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 October 2023. Time updated: 12:00pm, 13 October 2023 Skills Bootcamps funding and performance management Page summary: Guidance for suppliers under wave 3 and Jaggaer projects funded by DfE, including who is eligible to learn, how to report data and how it is evaluated. Change made: Updated ‘Skills Bootcamps funding and performance management guidance 2023 to 2024 (Jaggaer projects 7338 and 7698)’ to include individualised learner record (ILR) learning aims codes. Time updated: 12:52pm, 13 October 2023 Letter from Minister for Schools to unions about the NFF Page summary: Nick Gibb, Minister of State for Schools writes to 4 unions about the republication of the national funding formula (NFF) for 2024 to 2025. Change made: First published. Time updated: 4:06pm, 13 October 2023 National funding formula for schools and high needs Page summary: Details of the funding system for schools and high needs. Change made: Added link to a letter from Nick Gibb, Minister of State for Schools, to unions. Time updated: 4:07pm, 13 October 2023 School teachers’ pay and conditions Page summary: Statutory guidance on pay and conditions for teachers in England. Change made: Added ‘School teachers’ pay and conditions document 2023 and guidance on school teachers’ pay and conditions’. Time updated: 4:16pm, 13 October 2023 School teachers’ pay and conditions: guidance Page summary: Guidance to help schools and governance boards develop their approach to teachers’ and school leaders’ pay. Change made: Replaced ‘Implementing your school’s approach to pay’ document with 2023 updated version. Time updated: 4:16pm, 13 October 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: Updated to reflect that applications for the 2023 to 2024 academic year closed at 5pm on 13 October 2023. | ||