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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: Notice to improve: Cromwell Learning Community Academy Trust
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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: EYITT: requesting places and allocations methodology 2025 to 2026
Document: EYITT: requesting places and allocations methodology 2025 to 2026 (webpage)
Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: EYITT: requesting places and allocations methodology 2025 to 2026
Document: (PDF)
Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: How to register on the Learning Records Service
Document: (webpage)
Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: How to register on the Learning Records Service
Document: How to register on the Learning Records Service (webpage)
Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: How to register on the Learning Records Service
Document: (PDF)
Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: How to register on the Learning Records Service
Document: (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Education

Jul. 11 2025

Source Page: Letter dated 09/07/2025 from Baroness Smith of Malvern to Lord Young of Cookham regarding delays in needs assessments for young carers, as discussed during the Committee Stage (eighth day) of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. 2p.
Document: Letter_from_Minister_Smith_to_Lord_Young_-_young_carers_assessments.pdf (PDF)
Written Question
Music: Education
Friday 11th July 2025

Asked by: Adam Jogee (Labour - Newcastle-under-Lyme)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (b) Staffordshire are able to offer high quality music education through (i) the national curriculum and (ii) in music education.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

As part of the government’s Opportunity Mission, the department wants to widen access to music education.

Music Hubs continue to play a vital role across England, with grant funding of £76 million for the 2025/26 academic year. This includes nearly £2.2 million for the Hub partnership led by The Music Partnership, covering Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, and includes support for schools in Newcastle-under-Lyme and wider Staffordshire.

The department is also investing £2 million to support the Music Opportunities Pilot over four years, helping disadvantaged children and those with special educational needs and disabilities learn to play instruments or sing to a high standard in schools across 12 pilot areas. This includes Sir Thomas Boughey Academy in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The government established the Curriculum and Assessment Review to seek to deliver a rich, broad, inclusive and innovative curriculum, including music. The final report and government response will be published this autumn. Following this, we will legislate so that academies will teach the reformed national curriculum, alongside maintained schools. This will ensure music is an entitlement for pupils in every state-funded school.

Written Question
Family Hubs: Finance
Friday 11th July 2025

Asked by: Afzal Khan (Labour - Manchester Rusholme)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether funding for family hubs will be included in the Child Poverty Strategy.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The Child Poverty Taskforce meeting in January focused on the crucial role of local services, including family hubs, in reducing the impact of poverty.

Our new publication ‘Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life’ sets out that we are making a significant investment of over £500 million which will build back crucial family services and provide high quality support to parents and children from pregnancy to age five. Proposals include:

  • A new Best Start Family Hub programme that will take the best of the Sure Start, Family Hub and Start for Life programme approaches to create Best Start Family Hubs, bringing together the trusted advice and guidance all parents need in one place, and linking families to their local services.
  • Funding for Best Start Family Hubs in every local authority, so these services will reach the children and families who will benefit most from this support including those from lower-income families and with additional vulnerabilities.

This publication is accessible at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/giving-every-child-the-best-start-in-life.

The Hubs will help tackle the stain of child poverty ahead of our ambitious Child Poverty Strategy, due to be published in the autumn.