An overview of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below for awarding organisations and providers.
Research: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)
Evaluation of the virtual school heads national extension to all children with a social worker and evaluation of the pupil premium plus post-16 programme.
Guidance: School workforce census: guide to submitting data
How local authorities, local-authority-maintained schools, and academies should collect and submit data for the school workforce census.
Guidance: School workforce census 2024: technical information
Information on the scope and business rationale of the school workforce census 2024.
Policy paper: DfE counter-fraud policy
The Department for Education’s strategic approach to preventing and detecting fraud, bribery and corruption.
Transparency data: Teachers’ pension scheme payments: 2023 to 2024
Teachers’ pension scheme payments made on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE) in the 2023 to 2024 financial year.
Transparency data: Department for Education commercial pipeline data: 2024 to 2025
Commercial pipelines providing a forward look of potential commercial activity within the Department for Education for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.
Transparency data: DfE and executive agency spend over £25,000: 2023 to 2024
Spending over £25,000 by the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies during the financial year 2023 to 2024.
Guidance: Co-ordinated admissions 2025: series 21 files
Files for the electronic transfer of 2025 co-ordinated admissions data, primarily for use by software suppliers.
Guidance: Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores
Approved key stage 4 qualifications (GCSEs, Technical Awards, AS levels and graded music exams), discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2026 school and college performance tables.