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Action for all settings: Respond to consultation - Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping
The Department of Health and Social Care consultation Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping is live. It gathers views on:
- The proposal to bring forward legislation to make it an offence to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009
- A range of proposals to reduce the appeal and availability of vapes to children while ensuring they remain available to smokers as a quit aid
- The proposal to introduce new powers for local authorities to issue on the spot fines to enforce age of sale legislation for tobacco and vapes.
The consultation is UK-wide and closes on 6 December 2023. We want to gather a broad range of responses so that we can take forward the best possible measures for smoking and vaping – please respond to the consultation with your views.
Action for schools and local authorities: Check your recovery email for the 2022/23 National Tutoring Programme grant
This week, we are emailing all schools that received the 2022/23 National Tutoring Programme grant to confirm whether we will recover any funding.
If you do not receive an email by 14 November 2023, please contact us.
We will email you from tutoring.updates@service.education.gov.uk and use the email addresses provided when your organisation completed the year-end statement, or contact details from Get Information about Schools if your organisation did not submit the form.
As set out in the grant conditions, we may recover funding based on what you told us in your year-end statement. If you did not complete the year-end statement, we will recover your full allocation.
We are planning to email local authorities, including virtual school heads, next week.
Action for schools and early years settings: Sign up to deliver subsidised educational programmes tested by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
The EEF invites schools and early years settings to sign up to deliver subsidised educational programmes that have shown positive impacts on pupil attainment in rigorous trials.
Funded through the DfE’s Accelerator Fund, these programmes are available nationally at little or no cost and you can register your interest using the links below.
- Early-Years Settings: Maths Champions programme by 10 May 2024. Developed by the National Day Nurseries Association, to improve maths attainment of children in nurseries by training Maths Champions in key mathematical concepts, increasing staff confidence.
- Primary Schools: Mathematics Mastery programme by 31 July 2024. Developed by Ark Curriculum Plus, providing a whole-school approach to primary maths teaching.
- Secondary Schools: Embedding Formative Assessment programme by 12 July 2024. Based on Dylan Wiliam’s research, this programme supports secondary schools to use formative assessment effectively to boost pupil engagement and attainment.
Action for schools: Join a free Contract Management training programme
DfE are launching a new cohort for the Contract Management Foundation Training in autumn 2023.
This free Cabinet Office Foundation Level training will provide schools and trusts with the fundamental principles of contract management.
It is a flexible, online learning programme suitable for anyone responsible for buying goods or services for their school or trust, not just those in a specific commercial role.
For further information and to express an interest, please send your name and job title to ESCC.PROJECT@education.gov.uk.
Action for schools: Use the free financial education teaching resources and training on fraud for teachers and school leaders
In collaboration with the Home Office and the National Crime Agency, the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) has produced a series of resources to educate young people on the risks of fraud and how to protect themselves and others.
The materials address National Curriculum teaching requirements for Citizenship in relation to the law, crime and the consequences of crime for individuals, communities and society.
The lessons are freely available from the ACT website and are a valuable resource when teaching young people the risks of fraud and how to avoid being targeted.
ACT is hosting a series of free online workshops between December 2023 and March 2024, to introduce attendees to the materials, with the aim of understanding what fraud is, how it fits into the curriculum, as well as understanding the pedagogy and why these approaches are used.
Action for schools: Take part in research to help influence and improve DfE services for schools
As we build and improve DfE and Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) services, we need to understand what you need from them, and how you will use them.
To do this, we continually conduct research with heads, school business professionals, governors and others working in schools and trusts. We need to hear the views of people from all areas, and with all levels of responsibility.
Sign up for future research by telling us a little about yourself and your role. We’ll match you to upcoming research, tell you what the research is, how long it will take and when it will be carried out. You can always decide whether to take part in any research invite.
Our research includes short surveys, face-to-face or remote interviews, testing new online services, and focus groups and workshops. Your views will always be kept confidential and anonymous.
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