Department for Education Accounts 2024-25
Published on:The C&AG has issued a clean audit opinion, providing assurance to Parliament on the Department for Education’s 2024-25 financial statements.
The C&AG has issued a clean audit opinion, providing assurance to Parliament on the Department for Education’s 2024-25 financial statements.
The C&AG has issued a clean audit opinion, providing assurance to Parliament on DSIT’s 2024-25 financial statements.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
This report summarises the key information and insights that can be gained from our examinations of the Department for Education for 2023-24.
Governance and oversight of franchised higher education provision needs to be strengthened following instances of fraud and abuse in the sector.
This guide has been produced to support the Education Committee in its examination of the DfE’s spending and performance.
This report gives an overview of the approach taken by the Department for Education (DfE) to environmental sustainability.
This study assesses how effectively the Department for Education is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report looks at the Office for Student’s responsibilities for financial regulation of higher education providers.
This report looks at the Office for Student’s responsibilities for financial regulation of higher education providers.
This report examines the Department for Education’s funding provision and distribution of funding for mainstream schools in England.
Young people are making complex choices about higher education without much effective help and advice, and the institutions concerned are under very little competitive pressure to provide best value.
Young people are making complex choices about higher education without much effective help and advice, and the institutions concerned are under very little competitive pressure to provide best value.
The Department is exerting stronger oversight and sanctioning under-performing providers but there remain issues to resolve, such as more timely identification of underperformance and ineligible payments.
The Department is exerting stronger oversight and sanctioning under-performing providers but there remain issues to resolve, such as more timely identification of underperformance and ineligible payments.
We focus on specific concerns about the financial support provided to students attending some alternative HE colleges and other providers.
The Department for Education has made progress against many of its objectives in delivering the free entitlement to early education, but it must address variations in take-up, quality of provision and the impact on attainment in later years if it is to achieve value for money.
Four out of five students starting a full-time course in England are expected to complete their course, the NAO reported today. The United Kingdom’s performance on retention compares favourably with most other OECD countries, during a period of expansion in higher education. In a new report to Parliament, published as students await their A level […]
A report by the National Audit Office today has highlighted the major challenge faced by the Department for Education and Skills in reducing pupil absence from schools. The Department, together with local authorities and schools, has made some progress in reducing total absence. At the same time, there has been no decline in unauthorised absence, […]
Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn reported to Parliament today that the Youth Justice Board, established in September 1998, has successfully developed and introduced a range of new non-custodial sentences and programmes for young offenders. There is scope, however, for the Board to improve forecasting of custodial numbers, deciding of placements and […]