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• Speech: The government's vision for adult social care

  28-11-2024 17:53 via gov.uk
  
  The Minister of State for Care delivered a keynote speech at the National Children and Adult Services Conference in Liverpool.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, April to June 2024

  28-11-2024 17:41 via gov.uk
  
  Data on gifts that ministers gave and received, their external meetings and any overseas travel.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: special advisers' gifts, hospitality and meetings, April to June 2024

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data on gifts and hospitality received by special advisers, and meetings they attended with senior media figures.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality and meetings, April to June 2024

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  All data on senior officials’ business expenses, external meetings and hospitality.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: business appointment rules advice, April to June 2024

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Summaries of advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents.
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: senior officials’ business expenses and hospitality, April to June 2024

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data on senior officials’ business and hospitality expenses and meetings with external organisations.
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, April to June 2024

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data on gifts that ministers gave and received, their external meetings and any overseas travel.
  
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• Research: Working lives of teachers and leaders: wave 3

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  A summary report of early findings from the third wave of the working lives of teachers and leaders survey.
  
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• Research: Schools' responses to financial pressures 2023

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Research on what schools and trusts do when they experience financial pressures.
  
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• Research: School and trust business professional practice – making a difference

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Research looking into the practices that multi-academy trusts (MATs) find most effective for managing school resource and adding value.
  
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• Research: Relationships, sex and health education: 2020 curriculum implementation

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Research exploring how schools have implemented the relationships, sex and health education guidance.
  
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• Research: Pulse surveys of childcare and early years providers

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Research reports of the results from the childcare and early years provider pulse surveys.
  
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• Research: Labour market outcomes: impact of ethnicity, SES and SEN

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Analysis investigating the socioeconomic, demographic and education factors associated with labour market disparities of those with different backgrounds.
  
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• Research: Evidence of early years providers’ finances from a 2023 survey

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Evidence of providers’ finances from the 2023 survey of childcare and early years providers.
  
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• Research: Early years provision for children with SEND and in deprived areas

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Research to better understand childcare and early years provision among providers caring for children aged 0 to 4 with SEND and those living in deprived areas.
  
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• Research: Childcare and early years survey of parents: push-to-web trial

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Findings from a trial designed to explore the scope for online, rather than face-to-face, data collection.
  
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• Research: A process evaluation of the English Hubs Programme

  28-11-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Research report covering views of hubs and their partner schools on how the programme was delivered and experienced.
  
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• Do social workers support assisted dying?

  28-11-2024 16:10
  
  Most social workers support the legalisation of assisted dying, a Community Care poll has found.
  The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which will be voted on in the House of Commons this week, would enable adults to receive assistance to end their lives.
  The government has confirmed it will “remain neutral” on the bill, introduced by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, with all MPs able to vote freely on the second reading of the bill, on 29 November 2024.
  Social workers back assi
  
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• Correspondence: Secretary of State reply to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel

  28-11-2024 16:05 via gov.uk
  
  The Secretary of State for Education responds to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s review into child sexual abuse within the family environment.
  
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• Speech: Health Secretary opens first Men's Health Summit

  28-11-2024 14:10 via gov.uk
  
  The Secretary of State spoke at the government's first Men's Health Summit at Arsenal Football Club's Emirates Stadium,
  
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• Press release: Secretary of State commits to first ever Men’s Health Strategy

  28-11-2024 14:00 via gov.uk
  
  Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting announced plans at a Men’s Health Summit with Movember and Premier League.
  
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• Councils to receive delayed £22.6m in adult social care innovation funding

  28-11-2024 13:53
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Councils will receive £22.6m in delayed adult social care innovation funding next week, the government has confirmed.
  It confirmed today that the second tranche of the accelerating reform fund (ARF) would be paid out, following concerns from charity the Carers Trust that the money risked disappearing.
  The ARF was set up by the previous Conservative government to support the adoption an
  
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• Guidance: Accelerating Reform Fund 2024 to 2025: grant determination

  28-11-2024 13:42 via gov.uk
  
  Grant determination for the Accelerating Reform Fund 2024 to 2025.
  
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• News story: Winners of the 2024 National Apprenticeship and Skills Awards

  28-11-2024 12:38 via gov.uk
  
  Full list of winners for the 21st annual National Apprenticeship and Skills Awards, which took place on 27 November 2024.
  
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• Guidance: National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2025 to 2026

  28-11-2024 12:34 via gov.uk
  
  Tables showing provisional allocations for the schools, high needs and central school services blocks from 2025 to 2026.
  
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• Policy paper: National funding formula for schools and high needs: 2025 to 2026

  28-11-2024 12:33 via gov.uk
  
  Details of the funding system for schools and high needs from 2025 to 2026.
  
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• News story: Rogue employers will be banned from hiring overseas workers

  28-11-2024 12:22 via gov.uk
  
  Shameless businesses who commit serious offences will be banned from sponsoring overseas workers to crack down on visa abuse and prevent exploitation. 
  
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• Official Statistics: Further education outcomes: 2021 to 2022

  28-11-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Outcomes of learners completing further education training.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Further education and skills: November 2024

  28-11-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Learner participation and achievements in England for the 2023 to 2024 academic year, including apprenticeships and adult further education.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Education and training statistics for the UK: 2024

  28-11-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data on schools, attainment, qualifications gained, education expenditure, further education and higher education in the UK.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Early years foundation stage profile results: 2023 to 2024

  28-11-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Annual statistics on early years foundation stage profile assessments in England relating to the 7 areas of learning and the 17 early learning goals.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Apprenticeships: November 2024

  28-11-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statistics on apprenticeships in England from August 2023 to July 2024.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2024 (provisional)

  28-11-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The attainment of students at the end of their 16 to 18 study in England.
  
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• Press release: First patients benefit from cutting-edge UK scanner to transform drug discovery and diagnose serious illnesses earlier

  28-11-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  New total-body scanner supports patients through earlier diagnoses and treatment while aiding new medicines discovery.
  
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• News story: Unpaid carers supported by £22.6 million investment in innovation

  28-11-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  £22.6 million invested in innovative projects across the country to support unpaid cares as well as people with care needs.
  
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