Information about the mandatory qualifications special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) must gain within 3 years of taking up their post.
Guidance: Alternative provision census 2025: technical specification
Business and technical specification for local authorities and software suppliers to prepare for the alternative provision census 2025.
Guidance: Department for Education non-executive appointments
Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies.
Guidance: School census 2024 to 2025: technical information
Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2024 to 2025 school census data.
Transparency data: British schools overseas: inspection reports for accredited schools
Inspection reports for British schools overseas that meet DfE accreditation standards and are registered on Get information about schools (GIAS).
Press release: Teachers to get up to £6000 extra to teach vital subjects
The incentive is backed by £200 million investment to support schools and colleges attract and retain the excellent teachers they need in vital subjects.
Guidance: Levelling up premium payments for school teachers
Eligible chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics teachers can apply for levelling up premium payments between September and March.
Guidance: Levelling up premium payments for FE teachers
Eligible further education (FE) teachers can apply for the first round of levelling up premium payments from autumn 2024 until spring 2025.
Decision: FE Commissioner intervention: Strode College 2024
FE Commissioner’s intervention report summary on Strode College, and the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education’s letters to the chair.
Guidance: Academies: making significant changes or closure by agreement
Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State.


