Blogs & Updates
Updated Academies Chart of Accounts
June 12 2020
An updated chart of accounts has been released for Academies by the Department for Education for use in the academic year 2020/21. This includes a small amount of changes to the previous set release...
Summer Census is cancelled!
April 21 2020
The DfE have now announced that the summer census is cancelled.
It is vital at this time, that all educational settings are able to focus on the impact of COVID-19 by providing for the children in t...
Coronavirus financial support available
April 16 2020
The outbreak of Covid-19 is an uncertain time for everyone, but schools and teachers are facing unprecedented disruption with schools now closed and exams cancelled.
In the coming weeks, there wil...
The Trust Capacity Fund
April 06 2020
The Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF): A funding opportunity from the DfE to grow your school or Trust
The next round of Trust Capacity Fund has been announced and will open to applicants on April 6th.
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Prior Attainment Banding (Advice from ASCL)
May 23 2019
In the absence of official guidance from the DfE around the Prior Attainment Banding information for cohorts with scaled scores, ASCL have provided a suggested course of action.
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DfE to fund Teacher Pension increase
April 11 2019
The government has announced that the Teacher Pension employer contributions increase will be funded.
One item that has been concerning schools is whether the approaching employers teacher pension i...
Migrate your Secure Access account to DfE Sign-in
January 11 2019
It has been brought to our attention that number of schools are having issues with logging in to DfE secure access.
As the site has been migrated to DfE Sign-in you will need to do this before you u...
School census 2018 to 2019
January 09 2019
Please note: It's been brought to our attention that a previous blog regarding the School census 2018-2019 has encountered some technical issues, so this is a repaet blog post.
The DfE has decide...
School census 2018 to 2019
December 04 2018
The DfE has decided that there is no longer a requirement to collect three items in future census’s and these are Proficiency in English, Pupil Country of Birth and Pupil Nationality.
Therefore un...
Autumn School Census 2018
October 29 2018
We are sharing the following information that has been released from the DfE.
Update No 2 from the DfE
Purpose
The purpose of this note is to provide school census contacts with an update on th...
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