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The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.
Skills Bootcamps offer free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks. You'll be offered a job interview once you complete the course.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Explains how to apply for a free level 3 qualification. These courses could help you improve your wage outcomes and job prospects, and gain skills that employers value.
Guidance on the special educational needs and disability (SEND) system for children and young people aged 0 to 25, from 1 September 2014.
Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage.
Statutory guidance on inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
These standards set the minimum requirements for teachers’ practice and conduct.
The national curriculum primary programmes of study and attainment targets for key stages 1 and 2.
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
Lists the Skills Bootcamps by sector currently open for applications in London.
Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
Guidance on the suspension and permanent exclusion of pupils from local-authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units.
Applications for the 2024 programme are open.
Statutory guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education.
Practical resources for school leaders and teachers to help reduce workload, produced by school leaders, teachers and other sector experts together with DfE.
Guidance for local authorities and schools about children educated at home.
Lists of qualifications that meet DfE's criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage framework staff:child ratios.
Find out if a person’s qualifications allow them to work in an early years setting, and if you can include them in staff:child ratios.
Lists the Skills Bootcamps by sector currently open for applications in the north-west.
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