This publication provides information on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded:

• primary schools
• secondary schools
• special schools

State-funded schools receive funding through their local authority or direct from the government.

It includes daily, weekly and year-to-date information on attendance and absence, in addition to reasons for absence. The release uses regular data automatically submitted to the Department for Education by participating schools.

The attached page includes links to attendance statistics published since September 2022.

The local authority scorecards include information on:

• how many places have been delivered for the academic year 2020 to 2021
• quality of places delivered for the academic year 2020 to 2021
• how many places are planned to be delivered for the academic year 2023 to 2024
• estimated number of additional places still needed to meet demand for the academic year 2023 to 24
• forecasting accuracy of local authorities
• how well parental preference is met
• cost of providing places

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Between March 2020 and the end of the summer term, early years settings, schools and colleges were asked to limit attendance to reduce transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19). From the beginning of the autumn term schools were asked to welcome back all pupils to school full-time. From 5 January 2021, schools were asked to provide on-site education for vulnerable children and children of critical workers only.

The data on explore education statistics shows attendance in education settings since Monday 23 March 2020, and in early years settings since Thursday 16 April 2020. The summary explains the responses for a set time frame.

The data is collected from a daily education settings status form and a weekly local authority early years survey.

Previously published data and summaries are available at attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

This page outlines payments made to institutions for claims they have made to ESFA for various grants. These include, but are not exclusively, COVID-19 support grants. Information on funding for grants based on allocations will be on the specific page for the grant.

Claim-based grants included

Senior mental health lead training

Financial assistance towards the cost of training a senior member of school or college staff in mental health and wellbeing in the 2021 to 2022, 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 financial years. The information provided is for payments up to the end of October 2024.

COVID-19 16 to 19 tuition fund 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022

Funding for eligible 16 to 19 institutions to deliver small group and/or one-to-one tuition for disadvantaged students and those with low prior attainment to help support education recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to continued pandemic disruption during academic year 2020 to 2021 some institutions carried over funding from academic year 2020 to 2021 to 2021 to 2022.

Therefore, any considerations of spend or spend against funding allocations should be considered across both years.

School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19)

Financial assistance available to schools to cover increased premises, free school meals and additional cleaning-related costs associated with keeping schools open over the Easter and summer holidays in 2020, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals: additional costs

Financial assistance available to meet the additional cost of the provision of free school meals to pupils and students where they were at home during term time, for the period January 2021 to March 2021.

Alternative provision: year 11 transition funding

Financial assistance for alternative provision settings to provide additional transition support into post-16 destinations for year 11 pupils from June 2020 until the end of the autumn term (December 2020). This has now been updated to include funding for support provided by alternative provision settings from May 2021 to the end of February 2022.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) 2021 qualifications fund for schools and colleges

Financial assistance for schools, colleges and other exam centres to run exams and assessments during the period October 2020 to March 2021 (or for functional skills qualifications, October 2020 to December 2020). Now updated to include claims for eligible costs under the 2021 qualifications fund for the period October 2021 to March 2022.

National tutoring programme: academic mentors programme grant

Financial assistance for mentors’ salary costs on the academic mentors programme, from the start of their training until 31 July 2021, with

Statistics on the 2018 to 2019 school improvement offer by:

• RSC region
• tier of support

Information on schools in opportunity areas and Opportunity North East who are eligible for the offer is also included, with underlying data provided for all tables.

Numbers broken down by local authority district and parliamentary constituency are also included.

Guidance for schools is available at School improvement support for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.

Data is collected from local authorities covering:

• state-funded schools (including nurseries) through the spring school census
• private, voluntary and independent providers (including childminders) through the early years census
• general hospital schools through the school-level annual census

All education settings were closed except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from Friday 20 March 2020.

From 1 June, the government asked schools to welcome back children in nursery, reception and years 1 and 6, alongside children of critical workers and vulnerable children. From 15 June, secondary schools, sixth form and further education colleges were asked to begin providing face-to-face support to students in year 10 and 12 to supplement their learning from home, alongside full time provision for students from priority groups.

The data on Explore education statistics shows attendance in education settings since Monday 23 March, and in early years settings since Thursday 27 April. The summary explains the responses for a set time frame.

The data is collected from a daily education settings survey and a weekly local authority early years survey.

Previously published data and summaries are available at Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

All education settings were closed except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from Friday 20 March 2020.

From 1 June, the government asked schools to welcome back children in nursery, reception and years 1 and 6, alongside children of critical workers and vulnerable children. From 15 June, secondary schools, sixth form and further education colleges were asked to begin providing face-to-face support to students in year 10 and 12 to supplement their learning from home, alongside full time provision for students from priority groups.

The spreadsheet shows the numbers of teachers and children of critical workers in education since Monday 23 March and in early years settings since Thursday 16 April.

The summaries explain the responses for set time frames since 23 March 2020.

The data is collected from a daily education settings survey and a twice-weekly local authority early years survey.

These publications contain data on the delivery and uptake of government support for schools and colleges, including:

• mental health support team (MHST) coverage
• senior mental health lead training grants
• wellbeing for education return and recovery

They are in response to the: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision green paper.

Further schools and colleges mental health and wellbeing guidance is available:

• Promoting and supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools and colleges
• https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/cyp/trailblazers/" class="govuk-link">Mental health support in schools and colleges and faster access to NHS care
• Senior mental health lead training

This data shows how many interim visits we carried out in state-funded schools within each local authority, and provides a list of the schools.

Find out more about our interim visits to schools.

This data shows how many inspections we carried out and provides a list of the schools.

Find out more about our interim phase inspections of non-association independent schools.

‘Local authorities seeking proposers’ contains details of all local authorities seeking proposers to establish a new academy or free school.

It includes the:

• name of the local authority
• location of the new school
• phase of education
• capacity of the school
• sponsor application closing date
• link to the local authority specification and application form

‘Section 6A approved and under consideration schools’ contains details of:

• academies and free schools that have approval
• free schools that do not yet have approval under the academies and free school presumption section of the Education and Inspections Act 2006

It includes the:

• name of the local authority
• proposed location of the school at the time of approval
• phase of education
• proposed opening date at the time of approval (which can change)

Read the free school presumption guidance for further information about the process for establishing new schools.

ESFA funds colleges, schools, academies and other institutions. This information explains how we allocated funding for 16 to 19 education in academic year 2023 to 2024, including for those providers that opted into the 16 to 19 tuition fund.

The workbook’s notes pages explain how to use the different sections of the documents and more about the datasets.

Related information

• 16 to 19 funding: allocations
• 16 to 19 funding: information for 2023 to 2024
• Dance and Drama Awards guide 2023 to 2024 academic year
• Residential Support Scheme: guidance for the 2023 to 2024 academic year
• Residential Bursary Fund: guide for the 2023 to 2024 academic year
• Free meals in further education funded institutions guide: 2023 to 2024 academic year
• 16 to 19 Bursary Fund guide 2023 to 2024 academic year

Each government department has published detailed information about projects on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP). This includes a Delivery Confidence Assessment rating, financial information (whole life cost, annual budget and forecast spend), project schedule and project narrative.

The data reflects the status of the GMPP at 31 March 2023 and is published in support of the 2023 Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) annual report.

The Department for Education (DfE) has provided state-funded education and childcare settings with CO2 monitors to support them in being able to assess ventilation in their setting. It has also provided air cleaning units to state-funded settings with poorly ventilated teaching spaces that cannot be otherwise remedied. Applications were assessed against strict criteria that were set out in guidance.

This document summarises:

• the results of a survey of education and childcare settings about their use of CO2 monitors
• the results of a survey of education and childcare settings who received DfE-funded air cleaning units
• data on the number of settings that applied for DfE-funded air cleaning units, and the number of settings that have received them

These statistics about maintained schools and academies inspections in England consist of:

• main findings in HTML, PDF and word format
• tables, charts and individual provider-level data in Excel and CSV format
• a quality and methodology report
• a pre-release access list

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

A ‘stuck’ school is a school that has:

• had consistently poor inspection outcomes throughout the last 13 years
• been judged to be inadequate, satisfactory or to require improvement in every inspection it’s had between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2020
• had at least 4 full inspections in the period

When the school has become an academy, or changed its unique reference number for any other reason (such as being re-brokered in to a multi-academy trust), then the outcomes of inspections of the predecessor school are also included.

A ‘stuck’ school which improved to good between 31 August 2019 and 31 August 2020 is a school that has:

• been judged to be inadequate, satisfactory or to require improvement in every inspection it’s had between 1 September 2006 and 31 August 2019
• had at least 4 full inspections in the period
• been judged to be good in an inspection between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020

This data set was published with Ofsted’s Annual Report 2020.

This publication contains further education and skills statistics in England, including learner participation and achievements, covering the first 2 quarters (August 2021 to January 2022) of the 2021 to 2022 academic year (reported to date).

This comprises adult (aged 19 and over) government-funded further education (excluding schools and higher education) comprising:

• education and training
• basic skills
• community learning

Also released are official statistics covering achievement rates covering the 2020 to 2021 academic year.

Previously this data would have been released as part of the standalone national achievement rate tables publication. As confirmed in our guidance, we will not publish any institution-level qualification achievement rates (QARs) in the national achievement rate tables for the 2020 to 2021 academic year in response to coronavirus (COVID-19). We are publishing high-level summaries of QARs for statistical purposes.

Headline further education figures include traineeships and apprenticeships where appropriate. However, for commentary specifically corresponding to these, see the apprenticeships and traineeships: March 2022 statistics publication.