Government work evaluating innovative programmes in children’s social care has been praised as exemplary, with the National Audit Office saying it “will be of value to other departments”.
Councils in England are set to receive £70m to help implement proposed reforms of special educational needs and disability (SEND), including a national tariff to help manage swelling costs.
Nine local authorities are set to receive more than £300m of additional funding over the next five years to help fund deficits in their special educational needs and disability (SEND) budgets.
The Public Accounts Committee has called on the Department for Education to set out a clear roadmap for University Technical Colleges, after a report found that UTCs were only operating at 45% of...
Conservative and Liberal Democrat plans would mean a real-terms freeze for education funding per pupil for 16 to 18 year olds, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Senior Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to pull the plug on major changes to school funding before the snap election, a newspaper has reported.
A report that the government has clawed back £384m of funding for schools amid a ‘cash crisis’ in education has sparked criticism from teaching unions.
Auditor general Amyas Morse has issued an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the Department for Education’s group financial statements and warned the ministry faces many challenges to...
Children and families minister Edward Timpson has made £4.5m available to help councils form regional adoption agencies as part of moves to ensure all authorities are collaborating in groups by...
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has accused the Department for Education of ‘an alarming reluctance’ to work with local authorities to improve services for children in care.
Central government and local authorities do not tackle underperformance in academies and maintained schools consistently, according to the National Audit Office.
Academy trusts are not doing enough to mitigate the risk of conflict of interest between schools and sponsors, while some rules intended to protect public money are ‘largely meaningless’, according...
