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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.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Eligible biology, chemistry, physics, computing and languages teachers can claim back student loan repayments until March 2025.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
Guidance on the special educational needs and disability (SEND) system for children and young people aged 0 to 25, from 1 September 2014.
Explains how to apply for a free level 3 qualification. These courses could help you improve your wage outcome and job prospects, and gain skills that employers value.
Use this service to check a teacher’s record before they start working for your school, college, teacher supply agency, or other organisation.
Provisional list of post-16 level 3 qualifications that have had their funding approval extended or removed from 1 August 2025.
Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage.
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.
Guidance for schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities on maintaining high levels of school attendance, including roles and responsibilities.
Guidance on the suspension and permanent exclusion of pupils from local-authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units.
Information for eligible schools about the School-Based Nursery Capital Grant 2024 to 2025.
The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.
Guidance for local authorities and schools about children educated at home.
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
Statutory guidance on pay and conditions for teachers in England.
Eligible further education (FE) teachers can apply for the first round of targeted retention incentive payments until 31 March 2025.
Applications for the 2026 step up to social work programme will open on 17 February 2025.
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