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UK qualifications that meet Department for Education (DfE) criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage statutory framework staff:child ratios.
How to access your school attendance data through the Monitor your school attendance tool.
How managers and practitioners can check if an early years qualification is approved as full and relevant by DfE for working in staff:child ratios in England.
Statutory guidance about the support that pupils with medical conditions should receive at school.
Guidance for local authorities and schools about children educated at home.
Guidance on completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) profile assessment.
Methodology and conditions of grant for the 2026 to 2027 financial year.
Check if a new employee can work with children while you wait for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
The national curriculum primary programmes of study and attainment targets for key stages 1 and 2.
If you have a non-social-work-related degree and want to become a child and family social worker, you can train through this programme.
How the similar schools data model for attainment will work when it is introduced in September 2026.
Published allocations, conditions of grant and what the FSM expansion means for UIFSM funding for the 2026 to 2027 academic year.
Find out if you’re eligible for scholarship funding that will pay for your NPQ course fees.
How local authorities should collect phonics screening check data from all local-authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools.
Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2026 to 2027 financial year.
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
Steps to start an NPQ or the early headship coaching offer.
Information and resources to help schools communicate well with parents and carers to support improved attendance.
This page summarises future assessment dates in primary schools, to assist schools with their forward planning.
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