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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
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Geographical Region
London

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Gavin Williamson's speech at the AoC's FE Summit 2020

Gavin Williamson (@GavinWilliamson) gave an address the Association of Colleges (@AoC_info) FE Summit 2020, which was a two-day virtual conference for FE College leaders. This was a virtual conference in response to Covid-19 and Lockdown 2.0 and was instead of the usual annual pilgrimage by the FE Sector makes to the ICC in Birmingham for the usual annual Association of Colleges conference.

“GCSEs and A levels are a matter of life chances” – why it is important that exams take place next year

The importance of exams taking place next summer Telegraph Columnist Charles Moore says that abandoning exams in favour of teacher assessments next year would be a risky step and echoes the words of Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman who raised concerns that without exams many older students “simply won’t return to schools” for the rest of the academic year if there is no exam to work towards.

Question and answers: SAGE papers on Covid 19 transmissions in schools

The end of predicted grades? New system could see university places offered and awarded on grades rather than predictions

Education Secretary @GavinWilliamson announces plan to review university admissions system #PQA Government plans for post-qualification university admissions - Consultation will consider how a new, fairer system could increase opportunities and accelerate social mobility in higher education.