Technical information for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the September 2024 early education and childcare entitlements expansion.
Guidance: Special educational needs co-ordinator’s national professional qualification
The mandatory course for special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) to learn how to effectively perform the SENCO role.
Guidance: Apply for a national professional qualification (NPQ)
Steps to start an NPQ or the early headship coaching offer.
Guidance: Flexi-job apprenticeships using an approved agency
Information about flexi-job apprenticeships using approved agencies, in occupations that often use short-term contracts or other non-standard employment models.
Transparency data: New school proposals
Lists of local authorities seeking academy and free school proposers, and of all academies and free schools already set up.
Press release: Parents to save thousands in childcare cost with new funding
First phase of the biggest ever expansion of childcare starts giving working parents of two-year-olds access to 15 hours a week.
Guidance: Levelling up premium payments for teachers
Eligible chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics teachers can apply for levelling up premium payments between September and March.
Guidance: Early-career payments for teachers
Eligible chemistry, languages, mathematics and physics teachers can apply for early-career payments between September and March.
Guidance: National Careers Service community-based contracts funding rules
Sets out the funding rules for the community-based contracts for the National Careers Service.
Guidance: Teachers: claim back your student loan repayments
Eligible biology, chemistry, physics, computing and languages teachers can claim back student loan repayments between September and March.