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  5. Department for Education: The Academies Programme

    Report Value for money

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    Many academies are performing impressively in delivering the Academies Programme’s intended improvements. Most academies are achieving greater rates of improvement in academic attainment than their predecessor schools.

  6. Managing the expansion of the academies programme

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    The rapid expansion of the programme has been a significant achievement, but the DfE was unprepared for the scale of the financial implications.

  9. Investigation into pre-school vaccinations

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    This investigation sets out the system for providing vaccinations to pre-school children in England and the levels of uptake.

  10. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Establishing outcomes

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. Establishing the outcomes to be achieved by the service is critical for the remainder of the commissioning process. The term ‘outcomes’ in this sense has a specific meaning. Particularly, outcomes are the real-life economic, social and/or environmental improvements that you seek from your programme. For commissioners these outcomes […]

  12. Local government funding: Assurance to Parliament

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    The Department has increased local authorities’ flexibility over their funding, but as a result has less information on how funds are being spent.

  13. Children in care

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    The Department for Education is not meeting its objectives to improve the quality of care and the stability of placements for children in care.

  14. Improving poorly performing schools

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    A large proportion of schools in England provide high standards of education, with pupil attainment improving in primary and secondary schools. However, some schools are performing less well. The Department for Education and Skills and Ofsted use several definitions to identify schools that are performing poorly and need additional support; among the 1,557 schools included […]

  15. Educating the next generation of scientists

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    The Department for Education has made good progress in improving take-up and achievement in areas such as A-Level maths and GCSE Triple Science. However, there has been less success in increasing the number of science teachers, improving take-up of A-Level physics and raising the standards of school science facilities.

  16. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Working with third sector organisations

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. The public sector constructs and maintains many financial relationships with third sector organisations (TSOs). Commonly, the public body pays the TSO for the provision of a service [Note 1] specified by the public body [Note 2]. Practical example: Service specified by public body In one area, the local […]

  17. Civil Service People Survey Explorer

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    Find out how government departments score on diversity. Our interactive graphics summarise the findings from Cabinet Office’s People Survey.

  18. Ofsted’s inspection of schools

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    This report examines whether Ofsted’s approach to inspecting schools is providing value for money. We assessed Ofsted’s role, performance and impact.

  19. Converting maintained schools to academies

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    This report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies. We assess the Department for Education’s approach and the extent of conversion; the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process; and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.