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Departmental Overview: Department for Education 2017-2018

This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Performance Improvement area(s): Support to Boards

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
19 Nov 2018

Departmental Overview: Department for Education 2019

The NAO is publishing a suite of Departmental Overviews, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons Select Committees and Members of Parliament.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Performance Improvement area(s): Support to Boards

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
28 Oct 2019

Developing workforce skills for a strong economy

This report examines whether government has an effective approach to enhancing workforce skills.

Sector(s): Business and enterprise, Education and skills

Performance Improvement area(s): Economic growth

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
13 Jul 2022

Winter 2022

Education recovery in schools

This report will assess how effectively the DfE is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted 22 July 2022 in: Children and families, Education and skills

Performance Improvement area(s): COVID-19

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Entitlement to free early education and childcare

Significant progress has been made in providing 15 hours of free childcare to parents of 3- and 4-year olds, but the Department of Education has not yet achieved full value for money

Sector(s): Education and skills

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
2 Mar 2016

Establishing Free Schools

Many new Free Schools have been established quickly and at relatively low cost but the DfE will need to tackle a rising cost trend and systematically learn lessons from problems in a few early wave schools.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
11 Dec 2013

Evaluating innovation in children’s social care

This report examines the Department for Education’s evaluation of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.

Sector(s): Children and families, Education and skills

Performance Improvement area(s): Accountability in local service delivery, Local service delivery, Performance measurement, Transforming public services

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
24 Jun 2022

Financial sustainability of colleges in England

This report focuses on the financial sustainability of further education and sixth-form colleges.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Performance Improvement area(s): Financial and service sustainability

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
16 Sep 2020

Financial sustainability of schools

The government’s approach to managing the risks to schools’ financial sustainability cannot be judged to be effective or providing value for money until more progress is made.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Performance Improvement area(s): Financial and service sustainability

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
14 Dec 2016