Functional skills

Guidance and regulation

Functional Skills subject content: maths
- Guidance
- 8 November 2024
- Department for Education
Essential digital skills framework
- Guidance
- 23 April 2019
- Department for Education
Functional Skills subject content: English
- Guidance
- 8 November 2024
- Department for Education
Qualification-level conditions for functional skills qualifications
- Regulation
- 1 May 2024
- Ofqual
National standards for essential digital skills
- Guidance
- 23 April 2019
- Department for Education

Record numbers looking to kickstart new careers in cyber
- 26 June 2023
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and National Cyber Security Centre
- Press release
Without skills, businesses are “driving with the handbrake on”
- 22 June 2023
- Department for Education, Department for Business and Trade, and HM Treasury
- Press release
Skills Bootcamps will help plug skills gaps, but improvements are needed
- 9 November 2022
- Ofsted
- Press release
Letter to schools and colleges on advance information 2022
- 9 December 2021
- Ofqual
- Correspondence
New qualifications aim to give students core digital skills
- 25 November 2021
- Ofqual
- News story

Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: April to June 2024
- 19 September 2024
- Ofqual
- National statistics
Skills for Life and Work Fact Sheet and Tables - to April 2024.
- 30 August 2024
- Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: January to March 2024
- 13 June 2024
- Ofqual
- National statistics
Skills for Life and Work Fact Sheet and Tables - to January 2024
- 12 June 2024
- Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)
- Official statistics
Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: July to September 2023
- 14 March 2024
- Ofqual
- National statistics

Consultation on regulating level 1 and 2 qualifications designed to lead to employment
- 22 May 2023
- Ofqual
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 20 March 2023
Technical consultation on regulating Digital Functional Skills qualifications
- 31 March 2022
- Ofqual
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 27 January 2022
Regulating digital functional skills qualifications
- 25 November 2021
- Ofqual
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 26 July 2019
Digital functional skills qualifications: subject content
- 29 October 2021
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 11 July 2019
National retraining scheme
- 18 March 2021
- Department for Education
- Policy paper