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Pressures on children’s social care

This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.

Sector(s): Children and families, Education and skills, Health and social care, Local services

Performance Improvement area(s): Financial and service sustainability

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
23 Jan 2019

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

Academy Schools Sector in England Consolidated annual report and accounts 2016/17

The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on these accounts.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
6 Nov 2018

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Progress in Implementing EU Exit

This is our second report on the progress Defra has made in preparing for EU Exit.

Sector(s): Business and enterprise, Education and skills, Energy and environment, Food and farming

Performance Improvement area(s): Exiting the EU

Department(s): Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Published:
12 Sep 2018

The sale of student loans

This report considers the value for money of the sale of student loans that entered repayment between 2002 & 2006.

Sector(s): Central Finance and Treasury, Education and skills, Financial services

Performance Improvement area(s): Asset sales and privatisation

Department(s): Department for Education, HM treasury

Published:
20 Jul 2018

Ofsted’s inspection of schools

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

Sector(s): Education and skills

Department(s): Department for Education, Ofsted

Published:
24 May 2018

Investigation into oversight of the Student Loans Company’s governance, and management of its former chief executive

This investigation describes the events surrounding the appointment and dismissal of the Student Loans Company’s former chief executive officer. It sets outs the Department for Education’s role in oversight of the Company and how it responded to the concerns raised by two Company staff.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
11 May 2018

Converting maintained schools to academies

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.

Sector(s): Education and skills

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
22 Feb 2018

Delivering STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills for the economy

Government efforts to improve the quality and take-up of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills have yielded some positive results but there remains an urgent need for departments to set out a shared view of what they are trying to achieve and a co-ordinated plan for achieving it.

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

Department(s): Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Department for Education

Published:
17 Jan 2018

National College for Teaching and Leadership Accounts

Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinions on the National College for Teaching and Leadership’s (NCTL) 2016-17 Accounts due to a limitation in the scope of his audit of the regularity of the NCTL’s grant expenditure.

11 January 2018

Sector(s): Education and skills

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
11 Jan 2018

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