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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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New guidance to help parents avoid unsafe out-of-school settings2 days ago
Improving the outcomes of children in need3 days ago
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Apprenticeship and levy statistics: November 2018 - Sector Response5 days ago
DfE to match skills to jobs with new support for Skills Advisory Panels (SAPs)5 days ago
Further education and skills: November 20186 days ago

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Articles from Department for Education

Reformed Functional Skills Qualifications: Guided Learning Hours set at 55

Anne Milton MP's letter to Sally Collier on proposed guided learning hours for reformed Functional Skills qualifications:

Second round of £5 million Taking Teaching Further programme opens

Bids are being invited from colleges and post-16 providers to attract industry professionals to teach in further education

New guidance to help parents avoid unsafe out-of-school settings

Concerns that the "Voluntary safeguarding code of practice" for out-of-school settings will lead to the Government imposing greater regulation on out-of-school settings, including Ofsted inspections, is misguided, DfE have said today (10 Dec).

Education Secretary vows to boost vulnerable children's outcomes

Help for teachers and social workers to help tackle poorer outcomes of children in need of help and protection from social care

Apprenticeship and levy statistics: November 2018 - Sector Response

There were 375,800 apprenticeship starts reported for the 2017/18 academic year, compared with 494,900 in 2016/17 and 509,400 in 2015/16, a decrease of 24.1 and 26.2 per cent respectively. Of these 375,800 apprenticeship starts reported in 2017/18, 43.6 per cent (163,700) were on apprenticeship standards.