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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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Education Secretary speaks at launch of digital learning review, discusses lifelong loans and the importance of the Turing Scheme

Speaking at the launch of the Office for Students' review of digital teaching in higher education, @GavinWilliamson discussed the future of online learning. In the speech Gavin Williamson highlights the power of digital technology to transform higher education and how he wants the Lifelong Loan Entitlement to bring about the end of the ‘default’ higher education experience being a three-year degree. He also reiterates the ambition and importance of the Turing Scheme and its advantages to Erasmus+.

LMI for All: Developing and enhancing a labour market information database

#LMI for All is provided by the Department for Education (@EducationGovUK) and delivered by the Institute for Employment Research (@WarwickIER) at the University of Warwick in collaboration with Pontydysgu (a Welsh educational research institute).

Teacher assessed grades - Students will receive grades awarded and determined by teachers, with pupils only assessed on what they have been taught

Students will receive grades awarded and determined by teachers, with pupils only assessed on what they have been taught, the Education Secretary @GavinWilliamson announced today. Teacher assessed grades for students

Chief Medical Officer: “If you keep children out of school, every single one of the children you keep out of school is disadvantaged”

The country’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has said that it is “absolutely universally accepted that there are huge advantages for children to be in school”.

New £700M Education recovery package announced for children and young people

New £700 million package launched by @BorisJohnson and @GavinWilliamson, focusing on an expansion of one-to-one and small group tutoring programmes, as well as supporting the development of disadvantaged children in early years settings, and summer provision for those pupils who need it the most.