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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.

Our vision is to provide world-class education, training and care for everyone, whatever their background. It will make sure that everyone has the chance to reach their potential, and live a more fulfilled life. It will also create a more productive economy, so that our country is fit for the future.

We are responsible for:
- teaching and learning for children in the early years and in primary schools
- teaching and learning for young people in secondary schools
- teaching, learning and training for young people and adults in apprenticeships, traineeships and further education
- teaching and learning for young people and adults in higher education
- supporting professionals who work with children, young people and adult learners
- helping disadvantaged children and young people to achieve more
- making sure that local services protect and support children

We’ll develop world-class education with the following principles:
- ensure our academic standards match and keep pace with key comparator nations
- strive to bring our technical education standards in line with leading international systems
- ensure that education builds character, resilience and well-being
To be achieved through:
- always remembering that in education and care, by far the most important factor is the people delivering it – so we will strive to recruit, develop and retain the best
- prioritising in all that we do the people and places left behind and the most disadvantaged
- protecting the autonomy of institutions by intervening only where clear boundaries are crossed
- making every pound of our funding count
- Read our single departmental plan to find out more about how we are performing against our objectives.

We are a ministerial department supported by 19 agencies and public bodies and non-ministerial departments.
Our staff are based at our ministerial offices in London and in a number of other locations around England.
We work closely with:
- national and local agencies who look after children
- local authorities professionals who work in schools and further and higher education institutions, children’s services and health services
Role
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Geographical Region
London

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Decision: Direction issued to Blackpool borough council13 hours 14 minutes ago
Independent report: Blackpool children's services: commissioner's report13 hours 14 minutes ago
Decision: Revised direction issued to Blackpool council13 hours 14 minutes ago
Guidance: 16 to 18 accountability headline measures13 hours 20 minutes ago
Guidance: Free schools: how to apply14 hours 32 minutes ago
Policy paper: School and college performance tables: statements of intent15 hours 19 minutes ago
Further measures announced to boost the quality of post-16 qualifications15 hours 27 minutes ago
Guidance: Children looked after return 2019 to 2020: technical specifications16 hours 4 minutes ago
Guidance: Children looked after return 2019 to 2020: guide16 hours 53 minutes ago

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Society-wide mission to tackle early literacy and communication

New national campaign launched with ideas to support children's learning at home, or as part of everyday activities like catching the bus or doing the shopping

Guidance: 16 to 18 accountability headline measures

Guide for schools, colleges and local authorities on new measures in the 2017 to 2018 performance tables.

Further measures announced to boost the quality of post-16 qualifications

Two additional interventions will help crack down on poor quality post-16 qualifications as part of an ongoing Government review.

Increase in Teachers’ Pay Grant £280 million short of fully funded pay award

Education Secretary accepts recommendations to increase teacher pay scales by 2.75%, equivalent to £1,000 on average classroom teacher pay

Grenfell community and Kensington and Chelsea College to get £32.3 million further education funding boost

Government pledges up to £32.3 million to support the recovery of Kensington and Chelsea College and the local community affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.