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• Guidance: Assessment component files: 2024

  19-07-2024 15:40 via gov.uk
  
  Assessment framework specification files for software suppliers developing management information systems (MIS).
  
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• Pledge to get 10,000 vulnerable children into foster homes

  04-02-2026 16:54 via gov.uk
  Thousands more children in the social care system in England will grow up in loving homes, under plans to create up to 10,000 new foster care places.
  
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• Impact assessment: National Cancer Plan: equality impact assessment

  04-02-2026 15:21 via gov.uk
  The equality impact assessment accompanies the publication of the National Cancer Plan.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE update 4 February 2026

  04-02-2026 14:02 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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• Health Secretary, Wes Streeting launches National Cancer Plan

  04-02-2026 13:04 via gov.uk
  The Secretary of State launched the National Cancer Plan today (4/2) at the Royal Free Infirmary in North London.
  
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• Every cancer patient to get individual support plan

  04-02-2026 11:54 via gov.uk
  Under the government's National Cancer Plan, every patient will be given a tailored plan covering treatment, mental health, and employment support.
  
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• Research: National Cancer Plan: technical annex

  04-02-2026 11:38 via gov.uk
  Sets out supporting evidence, data analysis and graphs to supplement the National Cancer Plan.
  
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• Policy paper: Renewing fostering: homes for 10,000 more children

  04-02-2026 11:38 via gov.uk
  Sets out the steps required to address the sharp decline in foster carers over the past decade and reform the foster care system.
  
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• Policy paper: Regional care cooperatives

  04-02-2026 11:38 via gov.uk
  Information on the development and rollout of regional care cooperatives (RCCs).
  
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• Policy paper: National Cancer Plan for England

  04-02-2026 11:38 via gov.uk
  Details the government’s plan to transform cancer care and outcomes in England by 2035.
  
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• Fostering reform: proposed changes to assessment and handling allegations of abuse

  04-02-2026 11:38 via gov.uk
  Seeking views on proposals to improve assessment and approval of foster carers, and improve support during allegations.
  
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• Fostering for the future: seeking the views of children and young people

  04-02-2026 11:38 via gov.uk
  We’d like to hear from children and young people about their time in foster care.We'd like them to feedback on the ideas we have and share their ideas too.
  
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• Fostering for the future: improving the foster care system

  04-02-2026 11:38 via gov.uk
  Seeking views on a range of issues in fostering, evidence of what works, best practice and innovative ideas.
  
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• School-based Nursery Capital Grant 2027 to 2030

  04-02-2026 11:00 via gov.uk
  Information for local authorities about the School-based Nursery Capital Grant 2027 to 2030.
  
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• Research: Early years school-based nursery provision operating outside of the typical model

  04-02-2026 11:00 via gov.uk
  A look at different childcare operating models for school-based nurseries offering non-typical provision, how they are run and the guidance and support offered.
  
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• Early years provision: onsite nursery on a Best Start Family Hub site

  04-02-2026 11:00 via gov.uk
  How a Best Start Family Hub integrates early-years education alongside other wider family support.
  
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• Early years provision: new preschool class within an existing space

  04-02-2026 11:00 via gov.uk
  How the School-based Nursery Capital Grant funding helped a primary school to repurpose an existing space to create a new preschool class.
  
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• Ministers to crackdown on profiteering in care sector and make renewed fostering push

  04-02-2026 01:00
  Josh MacAlister issues warning as government launches £88m ‘call to arms’ to recruit 10,000 new foster carersPrivate providers of child social care in England will be pushed out of the system if they are found to be profiteering, the children’s minister has said.Josh MacAlister, who is in charge of overhauling the care system for children, also called for a fostering equivalent of the Homes for Ukraine scheme to provide homes for tens of thousands of children. Continue re
  
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• Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector and make renewed fostering push

  04-02-2026 01:00
  Josh MacAlister issues warning as government launches £88m ‘call to arms’ tofind homes for 10,000 foster childrenPrivate providers of child social care in England will be pushed out of the system if they are found to be profiteering, the children’s minister has said.Josh MacAlister, who is in charge of overhauling the care system for children, also called for a fostering equivalent of the Homes for Ukraine scheme to provide homes for tens of thousands of children. Continu
  
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• Three in four cancer patients to survive long term under new plan

  03-02-2026 23:30 via gov.uk
  Patients will receive faster diagnosis, quicker treatment, and the support to live well with cancer under the government’s landmark new National Cancer Plan.
  
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• Guidance: Assessment component files: 2026

  03-02-2026 14:17 via gov.uk
  Assessment framework specification files for software suppliers developing management information systems (MIS).
  
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• Government to cover travel costs of children with cancer

  03-02-2026 10:32 via gov.uk
  £10 million financial support package for families of children and young people with cancer to cover travel costs to and from appointments.
  
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• Early years screen time and usage

  02-02-2026 14:00 via gov.uk
  The government has committed to publishing guidance on early years screen time in April 2026. We are seeking evidence to inform the guidance.
  
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• Advice accepted on extending the RSV vaccination programme

  02-02-2026 12:25 via gov.uk
  The government had accepted advice on eligibility from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation for the RSV vaccination programme.
  
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• Parents prioritising primary schools with free breakfast clubs

  02-02-2026 12:07 via gov.uk
  Over 300,000 children are set to benefit from Best Start free breakfast clubs in April, as the government prioritises support to tackle the cost of living.
  
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• Families call for inquiry into residential care charity that ran up £1.6m debt

  02-02-2026 06:00
  William Blake House in Northants accused of mismanagement after revelation it paid one of its own trustees £1mA group of families have called for an urgent inquiry into a charity caring for their highly vulnerable disabled relatives which is under threat of closure after running up debts of £1.6m in unpaid taxes and paying £1m to one of its own trustees.Earlier this month, a judge gave the charity, William Blake House, just weeks to pay off its debts to HMRC or face a winding u
  
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• Transparency data: Free breakfast clubs: schools on the programme

  01-02-2026 23:30 via gov.uk
  The list of schools who are currently accepted on to the free breakfast clubs programme.
  
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• Greater access to breakthrough trials for rare cancer patients

  31-01-2026 11:00 via gov.uk
  Better chance of survival for people with rare cancers thanks to a new government approach to clinical trials and access to breakthrough treatments
  
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• Guidance: DfE assurance work on post-16 funding

  30-01-2026 17:36 via gov.uk
  Guidance on DfE's post-16 funding assurance process for further education and new apprenticeship providers.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: workforce management information December 2025

  30-01-2026 14:31 via gov.uk
  Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.
  
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