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Sets out the rules for provision funded by learners through advanced learner loans the funding year.
Identify the steps you need to take to buy goods and services for your school and stay compliant.
Guide to the regulations on providing supported accommodation for children and young people. It includes the quality standards that all supported accommodation providers must meet.
Final list of post-16 level 3 qualifications that have had their funding approval extended or removed from 1 August 2025.
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.
How local authorities, local-authority-maintained schools, and academies should collect and submit data for the school workforce census.
Guidance for local authorities to complete the data collection.
Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2025, spring 2026 and summer 2026.
Find out about the CDC2 programme and when preliminary meetings and school site visits will take place.
Guidance for local-authority-maintained schools on providing a daily act of collective worship.
Information to help schools increase access to PE, physical activity and extra-curricular school sport, including examples of good practice.
Regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) support and professional development for improving inclusivity in mainstream schools.
Funding available to training providers and placement schools for initial teacher training (ITT) in 2025 to 2026.
How maintained schools can apply to convert to academy status.
How further education (FE) providers can apply for and manage bursary funding for the 2026 to 2027 academic year.
Technical guidance on primary school accountability measures.
The latest common basic data set (CBDS) and version control log for use by software suppliers developing management information systems.
Information for providers of initial teacher education (ITE) for the further education (FE) sector.
How to comply and document compliance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding for the free breakfast clubs programme rolled out from April 2026
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