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Thursday 5 November
Get childcare: step by step
How to find childcare, get help paying for it and what to do if your circumstances change.
Accredited official statistics: 16 to 19 performance: 2026 (provisional)
Performance data by age 16-19 in England. Includes qualification type, characteristic, geographic, provider, and subject breakdowns.
Guidance: Monitor your school attendance: user guide
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities on using the monitor your school attendance tool.
Guidance: Introduction of T Levels
Find out what T Levels courses include and how they work with other qualifications, including grading and UCAS points.
Transparency data: Investigation outcome report: London Academy for Applied Technology
An investigation outcome report into London Academy for Applied Technology.
Official Statistics: Teacher development: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2026
Official statistics covering initial teacher education (ITE) and inspections of early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualifications (NPQ) lead providers in the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
Transparency data: Independent schools: warning notices and enforcement letters
Schools currently failing to meet the independent school standards.
Guidance: Care leaver homelessness reduction action plan
Action plan which aims to ensure that no young person becomes homeless when leaving care and the proportion of care leavers under 25 experiencing homelessness is halved.
Guidance: Planning Housing Pathways for Care Leavers
This guide provides practical support to help local authorities and their partners strengthen housing pathways, improve accommodation outcomes for care leavers, and prevent homelessness.
Guidance: Child and family social work ASYE programme: registration and funding
Information for employers about eligibility, registration, funding and making final claims for the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) programme.
Changes to Ofsted inspection fees for independent schools
We are seeking views on proposed increases to fees for inspections of private schools.
Transparency data: Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2026
Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2026.
Former permanent secretary alleges he was 'bullied' by education minister, says MLA
Sinn Féin assembly member Pat Sheehan made the claim during a committee hearing earlier this week.
Wednesday 4 November
Children spending too long on maths app TT Rockstars, MP warns
The makers of the popular times table game say they are bringing in curfews and limits to screen time.
Children spending too long on maths app TT Rockstars, MP warns
The makers of the popular times table game say they are bringing in curfews and limits to screen time.
Official Statistics: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2026
Provisional data for the period 1 April 2026 to 31 August 2026 and revised data for the period 10 November 2025 to 31 March 2026.
UK apologises to Ukrainian child refugees who were told to study Russian
Exclusive: Schools minister launches new Ukrainian GCSE and says she is sorry students were pushed to study Russian in its absence The UK has apologised to Ukrainian child refugees who were told to study Russian in English schools, as it launched funding for a new GCSE in Ukrainian. Ukrainian children who were forced to seek refuge in the UK after Vladimir Putin’s invasion in 2022 say it was “insulting” that their…
Tuesday 3 November
Jim Hardy obituary
My father, Jim Hardy, who has died aged 81, spent 54 years helping young people find their feet through karting. He joined Barclay school in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, as a chemistry teacher in 1969, and founded its karting team that year. Even after he stopped teaching in 1997, he remained its team leader. Continue reading...
What is a support-first approach to school attendance?
Support starts with understanding why Going to school regularly helps children learn, spend time with friends and be part of their school community. That is why children should be in school every day they can. When a child is struggling …
Guidance: Unregistered social care: how we apply monetary penalties
This policy explains when we impose monetary penalties (fines) against people running or managing unregistered social care, and how we determine the amounts of those fines.
Guidance: Guidance for inspectors and providers on using restraint, physical intervention and restrictions of liberty
Enabling providers to create positive environments where children can flourish.
‘Our aim is that children are protected’: besieged West Bank school fortifies its defences against settler violence
After deaths of five students at hands of Israeli settlers in last academic year, al-Mughayyir’s teachers and pupils are on high alert This year, parents in al-Mughayyir had to be persuaded to send their children back to school. Israeli settlers had killed five teenage students last academic year – one of them at the school gates. To reassure parents, teachers of the public secondary school gave a tour of the…
Monday 2 November
French pupils resume school blockades as country braces for more protests
Minister warns weeks without lessons are putting exams at risk as unions plan nationwide strike on Thursday Dozens of high schools across France were blockaded again on Monday as the government braced for another tense week of protests over school conditions and the high cost of living. The protests come amid warnings that weeks without lessons are putting some pupils’ school year and final exams at risk. Continue…
Guidance: Area SEND inspections: information about ongoing inspections
Guides for parents, carers, children and young people about inspections of local services for children and young people with SEND.
‘They assume the man next to me is the owner’: four women doing business in Africa in their own way
From feeding schoolchildren to recycling tyres, these entrepreneurs are challenging stereotypes while solving social and environmental problems Africa is thought to have a higher proportion of female entrepreneurs than any other continent and yet many still struggle to access financing . Four business leaders from Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Malawi tell us about the inspiration behind their success – and the…
Understanding Ofsted report cards and grades
This page explains Ofsted report cards for your child's education or childcare, including a video and guidance on what's changed from the old system.
The link between school belonging and GCSE outcomes
Pupils who feel they belong at school tend to get better GCSE grades, but much of that link disappears once otherwise similar pupils are compared.
The jingle-jangle problem of measuring “school belonging”
A look at how three international surveys measure school belonging, and why a single score may tell schools less than it seems.
Friday 30 October
Don’t just ban school uniforms from pornography – ban them altogether | Letters
Readers respond to a campaign by teenage girls against the use of uniforms in pornography This is a wonderful campaign by Rose, Mae, Aylin and Willow to ban the use of school uniform in pornography ( We’re teenage girls fighting to ban the use of school uniform in porn. Why have you left it up to us?, 23 October ). Perhaps it could be followed by another to ban school uniforms altogether. The reasons for having them…