Updated 'Independent schools warning notices' for September 2026.
Drive Preparatory School in Brighton and Hove has been added to the 'Independent school enforcement letters list'.
Removed Training and Skills Centre and Want2Achieve The Academy from ‘Independent school enforcement letters list’, and the related letters.
Updated 'Independent school warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 28 February 2026.
Updated 'Independent school warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 30 November 2025.
Updated 'Independent school enforcement letters list' and 'Independent school enforcement letters and notices' to remove Talmud Torah Yetev Lev.
Updated 'Independent school warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 October 2025.
Added a link to 'Changes to independent schools'.
Updated the 'Independent school warning notices'. Added 24 schools to the 2025 list. Removed schools from the lists for 2022 to 2025.
Updated the 'Independent school enforcement letters list', removing Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah and E-Spired Centre of Excellence, and adding Talmud Torah Yetev Lev. Updated the 'Independent school enforcement letters and notices' zip file, adding Training and Skills Centre, and removing Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass.
Updated the enforcement letters list with the schools subject to enforcement action as of 17 July 2025.
Updated the enforcement letters list, with the schools subject to enforcement action as of 26 March 2025.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 26 June 2025.
Updated the enforcement letters list, with the schools subject to enforcement action as of 4 June 2025.
Updated the enforcement letters list, with the schools subject to enforcement action as of 28 February 2025.
Updated name of school to St Catherine's School (Richmond upon Thames) in 'Independent school warning notices'. Added Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah, E-Spired Centre of Excellence, and Training and Skills Centre to 'Independent school enforcement letters list.
Updated 'Independent school warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 December 2024.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 August 2024.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 30 April 2024.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 March 2024.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 29 February 2024.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 January 2024.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 December 2023.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 October 2023.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 1 October 2023.
Added 'Independent school: enforcement letters list' and zip folder 'Independent school: enforcement letters and notices'.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 31 July 2023.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of 28 April 2023.
Updated 'Independent schools: warning notices' with the schools subject to regulatory action as of the 5th of April 2023.
The Department for Education (DfE) issues warning notices and enforcement letters to independent schools that fail to meet the independent school standards.
We issue:
a statutory warning notice, in the first instance, subjecting the school to regulatory action
an enforcement letter, if the school is still not meeting the standards after being under regulatory action, or where the failings are of a serious nature