Guidance

Memorandum of understanding between DfE and The Insolvency Service

How the Department for Education (DfE) and Insolvency Service will work together.

From:
Department for Education and The Insolvency Service
Published
29 May 2019
Last updated
9 June 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Memorandum of understanding between DfE and The Insolvency Service

PDF, 322 KB, 12 pages

Details

This memorandum of understanding (MoU) sets out how The Insolvency Service and DfE, including its executive agency the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), propose to work together. This includes:

  • co-ordinating regulatory operations
  • sharing information
  • formulating the regulatory policy framework within which they work

The MoU promotes:

  • effective working and communication between The Insolvency Service and DfE
  • clarity about their respective:
    • roles
    • responsibilities
    • working procedures
    • legal powers
    • constraints

It is intended to cover DfE’s regulatory interest in companies carrying out educational activities.

Updates to this page

Published 29 May 2019
Last updated 9 June 2022 + show all updates

  1. Added updated memorandum of understanding.

  2. First published.

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