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The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.
Summary of changes for childminders, since the previous issued framework.…
Summary of changes for group and school-based providers, since the…
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Explains how to apply for a free level 3 qualification. These courses could help you improve your wage outcomes and job prospects, and gain skills that employers value.
Guidance on the special educational needs and disability (SEND) system for children and young people aged 0 to 25, from 1 September 2014.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage.
Guidance for schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities on maintaining high levels of school attendance, including roles and responsibilities.
These standards set the minimum requirements for teachers’ practice and conduct.
The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
Guidance for local authorities and schools about children educated at home.
Guidance on the suspension and permanent exclusion of pupils from local-authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units.
The national curriculum primary programmes of study and attainment targets for key stages 1 and 2.
Lists of qualifications that meet DfE's criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage framework staff:child ratios.
Statutory guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education.
Find out if a person’s qualifications allow them to work in an early years setting, and if you can include them in staff:child ratios.
How local authorities should collect phonics screening check data from all local-authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools.
Statutory guidance on pay and conditions for teachers in England.
Guidance on completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) profile assessment in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
This page summarises future assessment dates in primary schools, to assist schools with their forward planning.
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