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• RISE attendance and behaviour hubs programme

  05-12-2025 16:16 via gov.uk
  Guidance for school leaders on the RISE attendance and behaviour hubs programme, its benefits and support, and how to join.
  
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• Secretary of State's address to the House on resident doctors

  10-12-2025 22:00 via gov.uk
  The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting has made a statement to the House on industrial action by resident doctors.
  
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• Government to prioritise UK medical graduates for training places

  10-12-2025 22:00 via gov.uk
  The government willprioritise UK medical graduates for training places from 2026 as part of efforts to bring an end to industrial action by resident doctors.
  
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• Research: Approaches to developing the education technology impact testbed

  10-12-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Explores potential approaches to developing an education technology (EdTech) impact testbed to support an evidence-based approach to development and purchasing.
  
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• Guidance: 16 to 19 funding: high value courses premium

  10-12-2025 16:38 via gov.uk
  Guidance about additional funding to encourage and support delivery of selected qualifications.
  
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• Policy paper: Government response to the report ‘Victims in their own right?’

  10-12-2025 15:34 via gov.uk
  Response to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s report on child victims of domestic abuse.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE update 10 December 2025

  10-12-2025 14:53 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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• Guidance: Apprenticeship funding rules and assessment plan guidance, 2025 to 2026

  10-12-2025 14:33 via gov.uk
  The rules for apprenticeship training and assessment funding, and guidance on the changes to assessment.
  
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• Innovative medicines supported as rebate rate falls by a third

  10-12-2025 14:05 via gov.uk
  Further support provided for innovative medicines as the rebate rate falls by more than third for 2026
  
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• National Professional Qualifications (NPQs): call for insights and evidence

  10-12-2025 13:00 via gov.uk
  We are seeking both insights on the full suite of NPQs and research evidence which may inform updates to the evidence-base underpinning 7 NPQ frameworks.
  
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• Transparency data: Voluntary scheme aggregate net sales and payment information: November 2025

  10-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Information on how the 2024 voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access and growth (VPAG) is controlling spend on branded medicines in the NHS.
  
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• Guidance: The 2024 voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access and growth: payment percentage for 2026

  10-12-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Sets out the payment due from members of the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access and growth in 2026.
  
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• Corporate report: DHSC register of senior civil servants' secondary paid employment, 2024 to 2025

  10-12-2025 10:08 via gov.uk
  Details of any paid or otherwise remunerated outside employment held by senior civil servants in the Department of Health and Social Care during the 2024 to 2025 financial year.
  
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• Guidance: Co-occurring mental health and substance use: delivery framework

  10-12-2025 10:00 via gov.uk
  A framework setting out actions to improve treatment for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions through better integrated care.
  
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• Changes to NICE regulations: cost-effectiveness threshold

  09-12-2025 17:23 via gov.uk
  Consultation seeking views on proposals to give ministers limited powers to direct the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in setting the standard cost-effectiveness threshold.
  
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• Guidance: National Child Measurement Programme: operational guidance

  09-12-2025 17:10 via gov.uk
  Guidance on running the National Child Measurement Programme, which collects the height and weight of reception and year 6 children across England every year.
  
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• Guidance: Bite-size guides to aid colleges in meeting new requirements following reclassification

  09-12-2025 14:00 via gov.uk
  Guidance for the FE sector in England to help them meet ‘Managing Public Money’ requirements, and other obligations resulting from reclassification.
  
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• Guidance: Special educational needs person level survey: guide

  09-12-2025 11:51 via gov.uk
  Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2026 and 2027 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.
  
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• Franchising in higher education

  09-12-2025 11:16 via gov.uk
  We are seeking views on proposals to strengthen oversight of subcontracted delivery of higher education, also known as franchising.
  
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• Correspondence: Letter to higher education providers: 9 December 2025

  09-12-2025 11:15 via gov.uk
  Letter from the Secretary of State for Education to higher education providers on institutional governance and protecting public funding.
  
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• ICO promises legal action over ‘traumatic’ UK care-record access

  09-12-2025 07:00
  Information regulator reminds council leaders of need for compassion when releasing files on childhood careThe UK’s information commissioner has raised alarm over the “lengthy, traumatic and often demoralising process” people face when trying to access their care records, writing to local authority leaders to say his office will take action over legal breaches.The data protection regulator said people who grew up in the care system were waiting up to 16 years for access to thei
  
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• Government crackdown on rogue university franchises

  09-12-2025 02:00 via gov.uk
  Education Secretary announces reforms to tighten rules on fraud in the student finance system that cost taxpayers £2m in 2022/23.
  
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• Guidance: NHS general ophthalmic service fees and payments from April 2025

  08-12-2025 16:33 via gov.uk
  Letter and directions setting out general ophthalmic services fees and payments from 1 April 2025.
  
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• Independent report: SaBTO hepatitis E virus (HEV) screening review and recommendations

  08-12-2025 11:41 via gov.uk
  Review of UK blood donor screening for hepatitis E virus (HEV), assessing current methods, risks and options to reduce transfusion-related HEV transmission.
  
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• Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal

  06-12-2025 18:06
  Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’ One of the most senior civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has placed the blame for the carer’s allowance benefits crisis on victims, many of who have been left with life-changing debts.In an internal blogpost written for Whitehall colleagues, Neil Couling, the director general of DWP services, said individual
  
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• Official Statistics: Health and social care statistical outputs consultation follow-up

  05-12-2025 15:59 via gov.uk
  An update on the November 2025 response to the consultation on health and social care statistical outputs which ran from December 2023 to March 2024.
  
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• Health and social care statistical outputs

  05-12-2025 15:59 via gov.uk
  We are seeking views on health and social care statistical outputs published by DHSC (including OHID), NHSBSA, UKHSA, ONS and NHS England.
  
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• Digital revolution in care saves millions of admin hours

  05-12-2025 12:48 via gov.uk
  Four in five care providers now use digital social care records, helping almost 90% of people who draw on care.
  
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• Over half a million children to be lifted out of poverty as government unveils historic child poverty strategy

  04-12-2025 23:30 via gov.uk
  Around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 – the biggest reduction in a single parliament since records began – as the Government launches its Child Poverty Strategy today (Friday 5 December).
  
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• Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report 2025 – Infections 

  04-12-2025 18:29 via gov.uk
  The Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty has released his Annual Report for 2025, on infectious diseases. 
  
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