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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

Technical Education9 hours 24 minutes ago
Adults to benefit from digital skills overhaul12 hours 20 minutes ago
NEET data by local authority13 hours 47 minutes ago
Participation in education and training: local authority figures13 hours 47 minutes ago
Church academies: model documents18 hours 54 minutes ago
Young people NEET or activity unknown: comparative data scorecard18 hours 54 minutes ago
Further education outcome-based success measures: 2015 to 201618 hours 54 minutes ago
NEET and participation: local authority figures18 hours 54 minutes ago
Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2017 and spring 201818 hours 54 minutes ago
COLLECT guides for schools and local authoritiesyesterday

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Participation in education and training: local authority figures

Databases showing the proportion of 16- and 17-year-olds in education and training 2012 to 2017.

NEET data by local authority

An estimate of the number and proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) in each local authority 2012 to 2017.

Adults to benefit from digital skills overhaul

Consultation launched to help more adults get the digital skills they need to get on in life and work

Technical Education

Today, Thursday 18 October, the Skills Minister Anne Milton, gave two speeches.

Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2017 and spring 2018

The release reports on pupil absence in primary, secondary and special schools in autumn and spring terms of the 2017 to 2018 academic year.

NEET and participation: local authority figures

Data showing the proportions of 16- and 17-year-olds in education and training and an estimate of those not in education, employment or training (NEET).