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From Department for Education (DfE)
  • Find out about the net capacity assessment (NCA) programme, when school site visits will take place and how to read your NCA report.

  • Find out what standards your school or college should meet on laptops, desktops and tablets.

  • Criteria and supporting advice for accredited providers wishing to offer the assessment only route to qualified teacher status (QTS).

  • A course to help teachers learn how to effectively teach and promote literacy across the whole school, year group, key stage or phase.

  • Final list of post-16 level 3 qualifications that have had their funding approval extended or removed from 1 August 2025.

  • Information and forms for academy trust chairs of trustees to apply for a suitability check, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

  • Information about academy admissions and the role of the Department for Education (DfE).

  • Guidance for local authorities on the early years expansion grant conditions, methodology and allocations.

  • Governance professionals (clerks to the board of trustees) may wish to print a PDF version of the Academy trust handbook 2024 for their induction pack for new trustees.

  • This self-assessment checklist helps academy trusts check they are managing resources effectively and identify any adjustments they need to make.

  • Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2024 to 2025.

  • Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.

  • Find out what standards your school or college should meet on copper cabling, optical fibre cabling and installation.

  • Criteria that qualifications in the level 3 free courses for jobs offer need to meet alongside the common funding approval criteria.

  • Best-practice standards for early years teachers.

  • The national minimum standards that boarding schools must meet to safeguard and protect the children in their care.

  • Information for software suppliers and FE providers that write their own software about learning aims and data sources for individualised learner records (ILR).

  • Guidance on the standards for planning and providing food in schools.

  • Guidance for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision on the teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant.

  • Information about the range of help and support available from the Further Education Commissioner, Department for Education and delivery partners.