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A letter addressed to governors and trustees of schools and colleges about 2023 qualification results.

• Updated: 3 July 2023

• Letter to governors and trustees: Qualification results 2023

  Dear Governor or Trustee, Firstly, I would like to introduce myself. I am…

Will look at how government supports growth of trust sector, helping trusts improve schools

• Updated: 29 June 2022

The Secretary of State sets out his ambitions for the school system, drawing on the Schools White Paper and Schools Bill currently passing through parliament

• Updated: 16 June 2022

Strategic delivery plans to be developed for each local area and region, starting with Education Investment Areas

• Updated: 25 May 2022

Baroness Berridge has written to all academy trust members to highlight the guidance on governing body structures and roles.

• Updated: 8 October 2020

Ofsted and the National Governance Association (NGA) publish a study that shows the business of school governance has continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Updated: 11 September 2020

Minded to terminate letter to the members and directors of Northumberland Church of England Academy Trust in relation to NCEA Duke's Secondary School.

• Updated: 20 August 2020

Minded to Terminate letter to the Education Village Academy Trust in relation to Marchbank Free School.

• Updated: 24 October 2019

Education Secretary sets out plans to boost training for governors and strengthen accountability of academies

• Updated: 9 June 2018

Damian Hinds calls on leading employers to lend their business expertise to support schools to improve education for every child

• Updated: 9 June 2018

A letter from Lord Theodore Agnew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System, to chairs of academy trusts.

• Updated: 21 February 2018

Information for schools about the database, the reasons for establishing it, and the requirement to keep it up to date.

• Updated: 1 July 2016

Sir David Carter appointed as new National Schools Commissioner.

• Updated: 5 January 2016

In his fourth annual report for Ofsted, HMCI Sir Michael Wilshaw finds a "deeply troubling" divide in the performance of secondary schools.

• Updated: 1 December 2015

In his second monthly commentary Sir Michael Wilshaw looks at the role that governance plays in an increasingly autonomous education system.

• Updated: 19 November 2015

Letter sent from Peter Lauener, chief executive of the Education Funding Agency, to academy trust accounting officers in September 2015.

• Updated: 14 September 2015

The Education Secretary addresses the National Governors’ Association (NGA) Summer Conference.

• Updated: 27 June 2015

New online tool and more bespoke support for schools that find it hard to recruit the expertise they need.

• Updated: 18 March 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Lord Nash writes to all diocesan directors of education on their role supporting maintained schools to reconstitute their governing body.

• Updated: 13 October 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Lord Nash writes to all DCSs on their role in supporting maintained schools to reconstitute their governing body.

• Updated: 3 October 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government