A draft Statutory Instrument (SI) covering the move to the reformed Teachers’ Pension Scheme for all remaining members of the legacy scheme from 1 April 2022.
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We're seeking views on proposed changes to the Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children's Homes etc) Regulations 2015.
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We're seeking views on providing Motor Vehicle Cover to academy trusts and local authority-maintained schools through the risk protection arrangement (RPA).
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We're seeking views on the approach to completing our reforms to the NFF and how we most effectively transition away from local formulae to all schools’ funding allocations being determined directly by the NFF in the years ahead.
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We're seeking views on the current offers funded through the National Skills Fund. The consultation also requests views on meeting critical skills needs.
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We're seeking views to :
Amend inspection cycles for children’s homes
Manage inspections for children’s social care provision from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022.
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We're seeking views from care experienced young people on proposed standards for unregulated accommodation for looked after children and care leavers aged 16 & 17.
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This consultation seeks views on our vision and operating framework for flexi-job apprenticeship schemes as a means to increase the use of apprenticeships in certain sectors and professions.
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We’re seeking views on proposals to attach conditions to the payment made to local authorities of the school improvement monitoring and brokering grant.
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The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on how we propose to provide greater support to small, remote schools through changes to the national funding formula's (NFF) sparsity factor in 2022-23.
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We're seeking views on proposed initial changes to the High Needs National Funding Formula (NFF) as part of a longer term review of the NFF.
We have also published a step-by-step calculation of the updated historic spend factor amounts shown in table 2 in annex B of the consultation document (see historic spend factor calculation spreadsheet below). NB: the numbers in table 2 are not yet final.
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We're seeking views on proposed changes to the statutory guidance ‘Keeping children safe in education’ 2020, with a view to making changes for September 2021.
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We are seeking views on our proposal to extend or amend a limited number of flexibilities within the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No'.2) Regulations 2020, in relation to Medical Reports, Virtual Visits and Ofsted Inspections.
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The Department for Education is consulting on revised standards for boarding schools and residential special schools in England. These standards are proposed to be published under section 87C of the Children Act 1989 as statements of national minimum standards, and will replace the current national minimum standards which were published in 2015.
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