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• Consistent financial reporting framework XML generator 2024 to 2025

  13-05-2025 11:43 via gov.uk
  Use the XML generator to prepare your data for uploading to COLLECT.
  
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• Share your daily school attendance data

  19-12-2025 10:15 via gov.uk
  The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).
  
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• Ben Jennings on plans to tackle misogyny in English schools – cartoon

  18-12-2025 18:47 via theguardian.com
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• Deepfakes and porn: the plan to tackle toxic masculinity in schools | The Latest

  18-12-2025 18:22 via theguardian.com
  The government has announced a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, but is it enough?As part of the government’s flagship strategy, teachers will be able to send children as young as 11 on behavioural courses if they are witnessing disturbing or worrying behaviour. The courses will include teachings on deepfakes, image-based abuse and online harassment.Labour’s strategy is part of a wider scheme to tackle violence against women and girls and wi
  
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• Use of reasonable force and other restrictive interventions guidance: proposed amendments

  18-12-2025 17:37 via gov.uk
  We are seeking views on proposed changes to the use of reasonable force and other restrictive interventions guidance for England.
  
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• Deepfakes and pornography: the plan to tackle toxic masculinity – The Latest

  18-12-2025 17:22 via theguardian.com
  The UK government’s long-awaited strategy to tackle violence against women and girls has been published today. Alexandra Topping joins Lucy Hough to explain what it will change, amid concerns that ‘toxic ideas’ are going unchallenged in schools Continue reading...
  
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• Recruit trainee teachers from overseas: accredited ITT providers

  18-12-2025 15:18 via gov.uk
  How accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers can recruit trainees who are not UK or Irish nationals.
  
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• Apply to provide international qualified teacher status

  18-12-2025 15:18 via gov.uk
  Information for English accreditedinitial teacher training (ITT) providers about the Department for Education international qualified teacher status.
  
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• VAWG strategy to better protect children from misogyny and abuse

  18-12-2025 13:47 via gov.uk
  Violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy will focus on healthy relationships and consent, and tackle relationship abuse through a new helpline.
  
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• Policy paper: UK Education Ministers Council communiqué: 13 November 2025

  18-12-2025 11:57 via gov.uk
  Attendees and discussion points at the meeting of the Interministerial Group for Education on 13 November 2025.
  
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• Teachers in England face growing misogyny and need help dealing with sexual aggression, says Phillips

  18-12-2025 10:56 via theguardian.com
  Comments from safeguarding minister come as violence against women and girls strategy due to launch• UK politics live – latest updatesSchools are reporting growing misogyny from pupils towards teachers and a lack of avenues to seek help about sexually aggressive behaviour, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said.Phillips’ comments came as the government was due to launch its long-awaited violence against women and girls strategy. Children as young as 11 who demonstrat
  
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• Official Statistics: Further education outcomes: 2022 to 2023

  18-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Outcomes of learners completing further education qualifications.
  
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• Teachers to be trained to spot early signs of misogyny in boys

  18-12-2025 09:47 via bbc.com
  The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls which will be unveiled on Thursday.
  
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• Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools

  18-12-2025 09:46 via theguardian.com
  Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’David Lammy: I want my sons to know masculinity can be kind – and my daughter to live without fearChildren as young as 11 who demonstrate misogynistic behaviour will be taught the difference between pornography and real relationships, as part of a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, the Guardian understands.On the eve of th
  
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• Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ and says Russia will achieve Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force - as it happened

  17-12-2025 19:26 via theguardian.com
  Russian leader says aims of its ‘special military operation’ will be met ‘unconditionally’The last available Erasmus+ country report for the UK based on 2020 data shows that University of Glasgow, University of Bristol, and University of Edinburgh were the three top UK universities sending students abroad, with most people coming into the UK from Spain, France and Germany.Just over 16,000 European students came into the UK as part of from the scheme in 2019/2020, with alm
  
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• Britain rejoining Erasmus+ won’t halt the nativist tide – but it’s a step in the right direction | Julian Baggini

  17-12-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  In an era of rising nationalism, this move represents a brief flicker of hope for the internationalist ideal‘I am a citizen of the world,” so the great Renaissance thinker Desiderius Erasmus is reputed to have said. It is because of his cosmopolitanism that 521 years after his birth, the EU named its exchange programme for students after him. It was part of a project aiming to create citizens of Europe, not just of its member states.Britain’s post-Brexit withdrawal from the sch
  
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• Guidance: Local authority capacity support funding

  17-12-2025 17:02 via gov.uk
  Guidance for local authorities on the local authority capacity support funding for school-age childcare.
  
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• Guidance: Holiday activities and food programme: grant allocations

  17-12-2025 17:02 via gov.uk
  Local authority allocations for the holiday activities and food programme and local authority support for school age childcare.
  
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• How will Erasmus work for the UK and who can take part?

  17-12-2025 16:58 via theguardian.com
  The UK’s membership explained as it prepares to rejoin the EU education and training programme it left after BrexitThe UK is to rejoin Erasmus, the European Union’s education and training scheme, five years after the country pulled out following Brexit. The move will allow UK institutions to tap into Erasmus’s wide network of training, educational and cultural opportunities, with the UK government describing it as “a huge win for our young people”. But how will it w
  
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• Recruit an FE governor

  17-12-2025 16:10 via gov.uk
  Explains the process that further education (FE) colleges should follow when recruiting new governors through the FE Governor Recruitment Service.
  
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• UK will rejoin Erasmus student scheme in 2027

  17-12-2025 16:09 via bbc.com
  The UKleft in December 2020 as part of the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU negotiated by Boris Johnson.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE update 17 December 2025

  17-12-2025 15:07 via gov.uk
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• EU’s Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit at cost of £570m

  17-12-2025 14:38 via theguardian.com
  Deal agreed to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledgeYoung people across the UK will be able to study or gain work experience through the EU’s Erasmus scheme for the first time since Brexit, after the government announced an agreement to rejoin at a cost of £570m.The scheme, known officially as Erasmus+, will be reopened to those involved in education, training, culture and sport from 2027, after discussions in London and Brussels to fulfil a L
  
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• Guidance: How to complete the authority proforma tool (APT) 2026 to 2027

  17-12-2025 14:25 via gov.uk
  Information to help local authorities complete and submit their APT for 2026 to 2027.
  
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• Guidance: Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2026 to 2027

  17-12-2025 14:19 via gov.uk
  Find out how much local authorities receive for DSG funding in the 2026 to 2027 financial year and how it is calculated.
  
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• Guidance: 16 to 19 funding: maths and English condition of funding

  17-12-2025 13:09 via gov.uk
  Information for institutions on the maths and English condition of funding.
  
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• Guidance: Funding claims and reconciliation

  17-12-2025 13:06 via gov.uk
  Information for Department for Education funded post-16 education and skills providers on the funding claims and reconciliation process.
  
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• Initial teacher training (ITT): accreditation for the academic year 2027 to 2028

  17-12-2025 13:00 via gov.uk
  Find out about eligibility and how to become an accredited provider of ITT for the academic year 2027 to 2028.
  
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• A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart

  17-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academiaLast Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a brief message announcing that one of the country’s most experienced and accomplished public health leaders, Dr Mary T Bassett, would “step down” as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rig
  
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• The Erasmus+ programme

  17-12-2025 11:04 via gov.uk
  Grant funding for international placements and partnership projects for organisations working in education, training, youth and sport.
  
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