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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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DfE opens the bidding to provide free period products to schools and collegesyesterday
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Guidance: School buildings: construction framework3 days ago

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Hinds visits Arsenal’s league leading language project

Education Secretary Damian Hinds with Sheffield Park Academy pupils at the Emirates Stadium

DfE opens the bidding to provide free period products to schools and colleges

Today (14 June) the Department for Education has published the Invitation to Tender for organisations bidding to offer free period products in schools from January 2020.

Damian Hinds approves new free schools

Thousands more pupils will have the opportunity to study in new free schools, as the Education Secretary approves applications across the country.

Continued success in parents securing their top picks of school

More than nine out of 10 parents got one of their top three choices of primary or secondary school for their children this year.

Government must do more to promote online learning and #Artificialintelligence in education #AIEd

Research into the online learning and artificial intelligence education markets and their effectiveness in supporting the development of skills in the English workforce.