Official Statistics: Children's social work workforce, year ending 30 September 2026
Annual statistics on children and family social workers including agency children and family social workers in England.
Department for Education
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Guidance: High needs funding arrangements: 2027 to 2028
Information for local authorities, schools and colleges about high needs funding arrangements for the 2027 to 2028 financial and academic year.
Introducing an EdTech and AI product safety certification scheme
We are seeking views on plans to introduce a certification scheme to assure the safety of education technology and artificial intelligence products in England.
Research: Parent, pupil and learner voice: omnibus surveys for 2025 to 2026
Findings from regular surveys of primary and secondary school pupils’ parents or carers, secondary school pupils and 16 to 18 learners.
Monday 9 November
Accredited official statistics: Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships statistics covering the full 2025 to 2026 academic year in England, with additional official statistics relevant to the apprenticeship service. DfE data is transitioning to a new platform. This release has therefore been scheduled for 10 December, allowing additional time for data processing and quality assurance while new processes are embedded.
Accredited official statistics: Further education and skills
Statistics covering further education and skills summary data, including apprenticeships and detailed non-apprenticeship adult further education, in England for the 2025 to 2026 academic year. DfE data is transitioning to a new platform. This release has therefore been scheduled for 10 December, allowing additional time for data processing and quality assurance while new processes are embedded.
Accredited official statistics: Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships statistics covering the full 2025 to 2026 academic year in England, with additional official statistics relevant to the apprenticeship service.
Accredited official statistics: Further education and skills
Statistics covering further education and skills summary data, including apprenticeships and detailed non-apprenticeship adult further education, in England for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Sunday 8 November
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
Friday 6 November
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.
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.
Thursday 5 November
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.
Statistics at DfE
The Department for Education (DfE) publishes official statistics on education and children.
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.