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How local authorities should collect and submit data about providers of early years education to complete the annual early years census.
Guidance for further education providers registering for Taking Teaching Further (TTF) 2025 funding.
Audit and regularity assurance requirements for further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and designated institutions.
This guidance outlines 'staying put' arrangements that enable care leavers to remain with their former foster carers after they turn 18.
Further information about the financial returns that academy trusts must submit to DfE.
Information on how the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies share personal data.
Data dashboard designed to support local authorities and partners with the implementation of the children’s social care national framework.
Statutory guidance on NQT inductions that started before 1 September 2021.
Explains how qualification achievement rates (QARs) are calculated.
Planning and prioritising maintenance works to ensure the learning environment is safe, warm and weatherproof.
Important dates for payments, publications, and local authority actions in the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
A guide for local authorities about education, health and care (EHC) plans for 19- to 25-year-olds with special educational needs and disability (SEND).
How adoption agencies should handle applications from people wishing to adopt a child from another country.
Find out what standards your school or college should meet on copper cabling, optical fibre cabling and installation.
Guidance to help admission authorities advise those involved with school admission appeals to understand their roles and responsibilities.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding for the breakfast club early adopter schools from September 2025.
School-specific brief template and annexes.
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual attendance measures census.
Guidance for local areas to embed working together to safeguard children and the children’s social care national framework in practice.
The national minimum standards that apply to residential family centres.
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