Education of disadvantaged children

Services

If your child is taken into care

What happens when a child is taken into care - who is responsible for what, care proceedings, care orders, going to court and the role of Cafcass

Promoting the education of looked-after and previously looked-after children
- Statutory guidance
- 26 February 2018
- Department for Education
Designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children
- Statutory guidance
- 26 February 2018
- Department for Education
National school breakfast club programme
- Detailed guide
- 28 March 2025
- Department for Education
Setting up school partnerships
- Guidance
- 19 October 2022
- Department for Education
Apprenticeships bursary for care leavers
- Guidance
- 12 June 2025
- Department for Education

Reception Year Quality RISE Conference Keynote
- 4 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Speech
More support for neurodivergent children in mainstream schools
- 29 May 2025
- Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care, and NHS England
- Press release
More girls to study maths under plans to improve pathway into AI careers
- 6 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Press release
Free breakfast clubs roll out as costs for families cut by £8,000
- 22 April 2025
- Department for Education
- News story
Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Daniel Roberts
- 7 April 2025
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision

Relationship between mental ill health and absence in students aged 13 to 16
- 11 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Research
Developing a competency framework for effective assistive technology training
- 8 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Research
Pupil premium and recovery premium evaluation
- 25 March 2025
- Department for Education
- Research
Annual enrolments at schools and in funded preschool education in Northern Ireland, 2024-25
- 27 February 2025
- Department of Education (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics
Attendance at grant aided primary, post primary and special schools in Northern Ireland 2023/24
- 30 January 2025
- Department of Education (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics

Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision
- 9 May 2024
- Department for Education
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 05 July 2024
Free early education for 2-year-olds with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
- 25 August 2022
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 21 May 2022
Opportunity areas
- 26 May 2022
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Opportunity North East delivery plan
- 8 April 2022
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds: response to the select committee report
- 21 October 2021
- Department for Education
- Policy paper

Early years education recovery
- 4 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Education, children’s social care and offending
- 20 July 2023
- Department for Education and Ministry of Justice
- Transparency
Identifying priority areas for raising school standards
- 17 June 2021
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Free school meals: autumn 2020
- 30 March 2021
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Social Mobility Commission unveils Annual Review 2020
- 3 February 2021
- Social Mobility Commission
- Corporate report