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Schools and academies, further and higher education, apprenticeships and other skills training, student funding, early years.

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Services

• Student finance login

  Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers

• Find an apprenticeship

  Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over

• Student finance

  Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments

• Contact Student Finance England

  Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan

• Find and compare schools in England

  Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.

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Guidance and regulation

• Find postgraduate teacher training courses in England

  Detailed guide

  4 October 2018

  Department for Education

• Keeping children safe in education

  Statutory guidance

  19 September 2018

  Department for Education

• Teachers' standards

  Guidance

  1 July 2011

  Department for Education

• Working together to safeguard children
  • Statutory guidance
  • 1 August 2018
  • Department for Education
• Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
  • Statutory guidance
  • 20 February 2018
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

19 October 2018 — World news story

UK funds projects to promote STEM education for girls

1. Civil Service launches Pioneering Economics Degree Apprenticeship
   • 19 October 2018
   • Government Economic Service
   • News story
2. Availability of ESFA services: 20 October to 22 October 2018
   • 19 October 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • News story
3. Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination of contracts
   • 19 October 2018
   • Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • News story
4. Adults to benefit from digital skills overhaul
   • 18 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story

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Research and statistics

• Further education outcome-based success measures: 2015 to 2016
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Early years foundation stage profile results: 2017 to 2018
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2017 and spring 2018
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• GCSE and equivalent results: 2017 to 2018 (provisional)
  • 17 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• Opportunity area programme: research and analysis
  • 17 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Alternative provision: response to the select committee report
  • 17 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Introduction of T Levels
  • 11 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Diversity of the teaching workforce: statement of intent
  • 11 October 2018
  • Department for Education and Race Disparity Unit
  • Policy paper
• Institutes of Technology competition
  • 2 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Social mobility and opportunity areas
  • 20 September 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
  • 19 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• NEET data by local authority
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Participation in education and training: local authority figures
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Young people NEET or activity unknown: comparative data scorecard
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• NEET and participation: local authority figures
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Office of the Schools Adjudicator
3. Education & Skills Funding Agency
4. Standards & Testing Agency
5. Teaching Regulation Agency

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1. Department for Work & Pensions
2. School Teachers' Review Body
3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Department of Health & Social Care
6. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
7. Ministry of Defence
8. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
9. HM Treasury
10. Cabinet Office
11. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
12. Government Equalities Office
13. Ministry of Justice
14. Schools Commissioners Group
15. Office of Manpower Economics
16. HM Revenue & Customs
17. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
18. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
19. Home Office
20. Government Economic Service
21. Crown Commercial Service
22. Department for Transport
23. Public Health England
24. Central Arbitration Committee
25. Department for International Development
26. Department for International Trade
27. Race Disparity Unit
28. Civil Service
29. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
30. Government Legal Department
31. Northern Ireland Office
32. Office for Disability Issues
33. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
34. UK Atomic Energy Authority
35. Border Force
36. Government Finance Profession
37. Civil Service Resourcing
38. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
39. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
40. Government Actuary's Department
41. Government Digital Service
42. Immigration Enforcement
43. Intellectual Property Office
44. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
45. Social Mobility Commission
46. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
47. UK Export Finance
48. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Ofqual
2. Ofsted
3. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
4. UK Space Agency
5. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
6. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
7. Sellafield Ltd
8. Defence Equipment and Support
9. Natural England
10. Social Security Advisory Committee
11. UK Hydrographic Office
12. The Charity Commission
13. Highways England
14. Innovate UK
15. National Counter Terrorism Security Office