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Department for Education major projects: accounting officer assessments

Accounting officer assessment summaries for Department for Education programmes and projects.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 31 August 2022
• Last updated: 29 September 2025
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  1. 29 September 2025

     Added 'Accounting officer assessment: free breakfast clubs programme'.

  2. 30 April 2024

     Added 'Accounting officer assessment: higher technical education'.

  3. 2 April 2024

     Added ‘Accounting officer assessment: early years and childcare reform programme’.

  4. 25 August 2023

     Added 'Accounting officer assessment: lifelong loan entitlement'.

  5. 20 December 2022

     Added 'Accounting officer assessment: T Levels'.

  6. 16 November 2022

     The 'Accounting officer assessment: Further Education Capital Transformation Programme' has been added.

  7. 14 November 2022

     The 'Accounting officer assessment: schools buying programme' was added.

  8. 4 October 2022

     Added 'Accounting officer assessment: National Tutoring Programme (NTP)'.

  9. 3 October 2022

     Added 'Accounting officer assessment: school rebuilding programme (SRP)'.

  10. 29 September 2022

      Added accounting officer assessments for 'institutes of technology wave 2', 'skills bootcamps and free courses for jobs' and 'SLC Evolve'.

  11. 31 August 2022

      First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Accounting officer assessment: free breakfast clubs programme

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Accounting officer assessment: higher technical education

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Accounting officer assessment: early years and childcare reform programme

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Accounting officer assessment: Further Education Capital Transformation Programme

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Accounting officer assessment: initial teacher training (ITT) market review

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Accounting officer assessment: institutes of technology wave 2

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Accounting officer assessment: lifelong loan entitlement (LLE)

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Accounting officer assessment: National Tutoring Programme (NTP)

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Accounting officer assessment: schools buying programme (SBP)

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Accounting officer assessment: school rebuilding programme (SRP)

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Accounting officer assessment: skills bootcamps and free courses for jobs

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Accounting officer assessment: SLC Evolve

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Accounting officer assessment: T Levels

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Accounting officer assessment: teacher development reform

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Details

All initiatives that form part of the government major projects portfolio are required to complete and publish an accounting officer’s assessment.

They are assessed against the 4 accounting officer standards as expected by Parliament and the public for use of public resources:

• regularity
• propriety
• value for money
• feasibility