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Care leavers and disadvantaged pupils to benefit from £126 million investment in new laptops and tablets
Press release
Care leavers, children with a social worker and children arriving from Afghanistan will receive devices to enable them to access education and support.
Thousands more adults set to benefit from new technical skills
Press release
Thousands of working adults will be offered free courses to rapidly upskill in STEM sectors including engineering, digital and construction
Adaptations in 2022 summer exams to ensure fairness for students
Press release
Students will sit GCSE, A and AS level exams next year with adaptations to recognise the disruption to their education.
Guidance for schools: coronavirus (COVID-19)
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What school leaders, teachers and school staff need to do during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Free courses for jobs
Guidance
Details of the free courses and qualifications for adults (19+) available through the government’s Plan for Jobs including eligibility criteria and how to apply.
Access childcare support through the childcare service
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Apply for Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours free childcare.
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What the Department for Education does
The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England.
DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 17 agencies and public bodies.
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Guidance and regulation
- Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
- Statutory guidance
- Development Matters
- Guidance
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News and communications
- Education Secretary puts climate change at the heart of education
- News story
- Minded to terminate letter to Redhill Academy Trust
- Correspondence
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Research and statistics
- College Collaboration Fund (CCF) insight report
- Research and analysis
- Review of time in school and 16 to 19 settings
- Research and analysis
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Policy papers and consultations
- Digital functional skills qualifications: subject content
- Consultation outcome
- Reforming how local authority school improvement functions are funded
- Open consultation
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Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
- Transparency data
- CO2 monitors: cumulative delivery statistics up to 29 October 2021
- Transparency data
Our ministers
The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP
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Our management
Susan Acland-Hood Permanent Secretary
Paul Kett Director General, Higher and Further Education Group Julia Kinniburgh Director General, Covid-19 Response and Schools Recovery Andrew McCully Director General, Early Years and Schools Indra Morris Director General, Children’s Services, Communications & Strategy Group Mike Green Chief Operating Officer, Operations Group Richard Pennycook Lead non-executive board member and non-executive board member with responsibility for the Union Ian Ferguson CBE Non-executive board member Irene Lucas Non-executive board member Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE Non-executive board member Toby Peyton-Jones Non-executive board member Nick Timothy CBE Non-Executive Director John Edwards Interim Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency
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