Official Statistics: Pupil attendance in schools
Data on the levels of attendance and overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.
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Monday 9 November
Official Statistics: Initial teacher training: trainee number census - 2026 to 2027
Provisional recruitment to initial teacher training (ITT) programmes in England in the academic year 2026 to 2027.
Accredited official statistics: Children in need in England: 2025 to 2026
Statistics on children in need in England, including on child protection plans and referrals to and assessments completed by children's social care services
Get childcare: step by step
How to find childcare, get help paying for it and what to do if your circumstances change.
How should schools prepare for snow, storm and flooding, and will they close?
Schools and other education settings should stay open during severe weather wherever it is safe and reasonably possible. With effective planning, most settings can adapt and keep operating safely in storms, flooding, snow, ice, high winds, heatwaves and extreme cold. …
Guidance: PE and sport premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2025
Allocations for academic year 2025 to 2026 and the terms and conditions that local authorities, maintained schools and academies must follow.
British schools overseas: accreditation process and support
How to apply for the voluntary accreditation scheme for British schools overseas (BSO), the accreditation process, removing accreditation and where to find support.
Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’
Company says schools should control student AI use, but if they block its AI tools, they’ll lose access to search engine Parents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google’s announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search. Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools and classrooms, alongside options allowing teachers and administrators to restrict…
Guidance: Further education corporations becoming higher education corporations
The application criteria and process for further education corporations (FECs) seeking to become higher education corporations (HECs).
Free school milk scheme could end after 50 years
Free school milk has been provided to children in Wales since the 1970s, but that could now change.
Is it the end of free school milk?
Free school milk has been provided to children in Wales since the 1970s, but that could now change.
Society needs to act to help white working-class pupils, inquiry says
The education secretary says she is backing the inquiry to "get to the heart of the barriers holding children back".
Teaching GCSE topics younger risks turning schools into ‘early exam factories’, Powell warns
Lucy Powell says proposals to end widespread practice will be included in overhaul of England’s national curriculum Pushing GCSE subjects on younger pupils risks turning England’s secondary schools into “early exam factories”, the education secretary has said, warning that it is increasing disengagement from education. Lucy Powell wants schools to end the widespread practice of teaching GCSE topics to pupils in year…
Sunday 8 November
Secondary schools told to stop teaching GCSEs before Year 10
The government says pupils in Year 7 to 9 should have "richer, more engaging" learning than preparing for GCSEs.
Curriculum overhaul to re-engage pupils in vital early secondary years
As part of the biggest shake up of the national curriculum in a generation, Key Stage 3 is set to become a more engaging, exciting and distinct part of child’s experience to boost participation and progression
Nandy rejects claims of politicising Remembrance Sunday after Erasmus row
The culture secretary says the UK rejoining the EU's study and work scheme will help honour wartime sacrifice.
Friday 6 November
When a single vowel stands in the path to victory, the stakes could not be higher for these spelling bee champions
Primary school students bested 200,000 competitors across New South Wales to reach the Premier’s Spelling Bee finals in Sydney Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Competing in a spelling bee is not for the faint of heart. Sometimes, the difference between victory and loss is one incorrect vowel and you’re undone, months of training reduced to nought. At a small theatre hall in Sydney’s west…
Employ a postgraduate teaching apprentice
How schools and local authorities can employ a postgraduate teaching apprentice.
Provide training for postgraduate teaching apprentices
How initial teacher training providers can train postgraduate teaching apprentices.
Offer a teacher degree apprenticeship
Information for accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers, lead partners and schools on offering the teacher degree apprenticeship (TDA).
Guidance: School workforce census: guides
Guides for schools and local authorities on submitting data for the school workforce census 2025.
Teachers and parents: what are your experiences of AI-generated emails?
We’d like to hear from teachers and parents about how AI is changing communication between schools and families As AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude become increasingly common in everyday life, we are interested in how they’re being used in communication between parents and schools. Are you a school leader or teacher who has received AI-generated emails from parents, if so, what has been the impact? Or are you a…
Parents warned to be on alert after school data breach
There have been concerns that the breach may have allowed access to parent contact details and some pupil information.
Guidance: Department for Education non-executive appointments
Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies.
Transparency data: Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs
Information on all academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs) open in England, and those in the process of opening.
Guidance: Children’s social care improvement and intervention data model
How the children’s social care data model supports the Department for Education’s improvement and intervention approach.
'Misleading' student loans information left out examples of higher-salary repayments
The Treasury Committee chair says she is "shocked" after one university compared repayments to the price of coffee.
'Misleading' student loans information left out examples of higher-salary repayments
The Treasury Committee chair says she is "shocked" after one university compared repayments to the price of coffee.
Thursday 5 November
School failed to deal with racist bullying, father claims
The school and council say the school is safe for every pupil.
Guidance: Local authority measures to support attendance (LAMSA) data collection, 2027
Guidance on collecting data for LAMSA, formerly known as the parental responsibility measures for attendance collection.