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Cultural education, religious education and collective worship, promoting British values and citizenship in schools.

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Services

• Music and Dance Scheme: funding for students

  Financial help with sending your child to a specialist school for young musicians and dancers

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Guidance and regulation

• Religious education in English schools

  Guidance

  1 February 2010

  Department for Education

• Promoting fundamental British values through SMSC

  Guidance

  27 November 2014

  Department for Education

• National curriculum in England: citizenship programmes of study

  Statutory guidance

  11 September 2013

  Department for Education

• Collective worship in schools
  • Guidance
  • 31 January 1994
  • Department for Education
• SMSC requirements for independent schools
  • Guidance
  • 27 November 2014
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

Funding boost for the arts to support talented pupils

10 April 2018

Department for Education

News story

1. London school helps to shape Relationships and Sex education
   • 8 February 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
2. Department for Education launches Commonwealth education pack
   • 2 February 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
3. Pupils from across the country celebrate Mandarin success
   • 7 December 2017
   • Department for Education
   • News story
4. Relationships and Sex Education for the 21st Century
   • 6 November 2017
   • Department for Education
   • News story

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Research and statistics

• Developing character skills in schools
  • 18 January 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Survey - competitive school sport
  • 20 June 2014
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Citizenship consolidated? A survey of citizenship in schools
  • 11 October 2013
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Religious education: realising the potential
  • 6 October 2013
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Cultural education in England
  • 29 February 2012
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Department for Education
  • Independent report

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Policy and engagement

• GCSE and A level reform: religious studies 12 February 2015

  Department for Education

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 29 December 2014

• PSHE and SRE in schools: government response
  • 10 February 2016
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• 2010 to 2015 government policy: arts and culture
  • 8 May 2015
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Moving More, Living More: Olympic and Paralympic Games legacy
  • 13 February 2014
  • Cabinet Office, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Education, Department for Transport, and Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper
• Cultural education
  • 5 August 2013
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency

• Citizenship (and human rights) in the curriculum
  • 19 April 2011
  • Department for Education
  • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
3. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
4. Ministry of Defence
5. Cabinet Office

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1. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
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3. Department of Health & Social Care

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