What we do

The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. The department is also home to the Government Equalities Office. We work to provide children’s services and education that ensure opportunity is equal for all, no matter what their background or family circumstances.

DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 17 agencies and public bodies.

Read more about what we do

Our policies

  1. Academies and free schools
  2. Poverty and social justice
  3. Equality

See all our policies

Documents

Our announcements

  1. New CEO of the Education and Skills Funding Agency appointed

    • News story

  2. A level results day 2017

    • News story

See all our announcements

Our consultations

  1. School exclusion guidance: proposed revisions

    • Consultation outcome

  2. Implementing the English Baccalaureate

    • Consultation outcome

See all our consultations

Our publications

  1. Mainstream and 16 to 19 free school financial template

    • Form

  2. Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2017

    • Transparency data

See all our publications

Our statistics

  1. Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments to June 2017

    • Official Statistics

  2. Widening participation in higher education: 2017

    • Official Statistics

See all our statistics

Our ministers

Our management

Contact DfE

General enquiries

Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD

The national helpline is open between Monday and Friday, 9am to 5pm, although you may get a quicker answer by calling between 9am and 10am, or between 4pm and 5pm.

Preventing extremism in schools and children's services

If you are concerned about extremism in a school or organisation that works with children, or if you think a child might be at risk of extremism, contact our helpline.

Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm (excluding bank holidays).

Media enquiries

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question
  3. Make a new request by contacting us at:

Freedom of information (FOI) requests

Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD

High profile groups within DfE

Corporate information

Jobs and contracts

Read about the types of information we routinely publish in our Publication scheme. Our Personal information charter explains how we treat your personal information. Read our policy on Social media use.