Reducing the regulation and bureaucracy around school premises was recommended in the independent Review of Education Capital carried out by Sebastian James. The Secretary of State indicated his intention to consult on this recommendation in July 2011 in the initial government response to the review.

In November 2011, the Department for Education launched a consultation on making identical the requirements for the maintained and independent sectors and to reduce the number of regulations. This document sets out the responses to the consultation.

Our intention was to deregulate and end the confusion and unnecessary bureaucracy surrounding the current requirements. We also committed to simplifying the regulations and the supporting guidance. Schools will be required to meet fewer standards and it will be easier for them to understand what they need to do.

The school premises regulations for maintained schools have been revised and the changes came into force in October 2012. We made the same changes to Part 5 of the Independent School Standards, and these came into force on 1 January 2013.

The published advice explains to schools and local authorities how they can meet the regulations. It also provides signposts to other, more general building and premises related legislation and guidance of relevance to schools.

Details about the number of people working for the DfE group, and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors.

The DfE group includes the:

• Department for Education
• Skills England
• Teaching Regulation Agency
• Standards and Testing Agency
• Office of the Children’s Commissioner
• Construction Industry Training Board
• Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
• Office for Students
• Student Loans Company
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
• LocatEd
• Oak National Academy
• Social Work England

This data is also available on data.gov.uk:

• https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/9a5ace56-cf8e-432a-b87b-50d4ba841641/workforce-management-information-department-for-education">Workforce management information - Department for Education

Details of approved expenditure in areas limited by spending controls on a quarterly basis for 2025 to 2026.

This data is also available on data.gov.uk:

• https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/9524a376-b17d-4fd6-a848-25d797548e23/dfe-spend-control-data">DfE Spend Control Data

The Department for Education (DfE) is currently undertaking work to significantly expand the number of teaching schools and national leaders of education, with a targeted approach focused on areas where they are most needed in order to create a comprehensive national network of school-led support for leaders to draw on as they choose. There is a commitment to ensure that all schools in all areas can access support, collaboration and best practice by ensuring full coverage of system leaders across the country.

This is a report that states the number of system leaders designated by DfE.

This includes:

• National leaders of education (NLEs). NLEs are excellent headteachers who, together with the staff from their national support schools, provide direct support to other schools, particularly those in challenging circumstances to help them improve by providing additional leadership capacity and expertise.

• Teaching schools. These are strong schools that work with others to provide high-quality training and development to new and experienced school staff. They are part of the plan to give schools a central role in raising standards by developing educational excellence everywhere.

• Teaching school alliances. Teaching school alliances are a group of schools, led by a teaching school, that work together to bring about improvements across the schools, focussing on initial teacher training, school-to-school support and professional development.

• National leaders of governance (NLGs). NLGs are highly effective chairs of governors who use their skills and experience to provide coaching and mentoring support to another chair of governors to improve school and academy performance. In some cases, they work in partnership with an NLE.

This information is for school leaders, school staff and governing bodies in all maintained schools, academies and free schools.

You should be aware that the figures in this publication may differ from the numbers available in the http://apps.nationalcollege.org.uk/s2ssd_new/">school-to-school support directory, which is used as a live tool to find a teaching school or system leader.

Find out more about teaching schools and system leaders and get support for you and your school.

This statement gives an overview of DfE’s success in deregulating the private, voluntary and independent sectors in education and children’s services since January 2011.

It shows the financial impact of new regulations introduced or planned for introduction over a 6-month period. The statement also contains a summary of the costs of compliance with these regulations and DfE’s performance against the ‘one-in, two-out’ framework.

Each new regulation is categorised as:

• having a cost impact on businesses, defined as ‘in’
• being part of savings made by modifying or removing existing regulations, defined as ‘out’
• having equal, or non-monetisable, costs and benefits, defined as ‘zero net’

‘Non-monetisable’ means that a monetary value can’t be put on either the costs or benefits to the organisation.

Data for spending over £25,000 by:

• Department for Education (DfE)
• Standards and Testing Agency (STA)
• Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)
• Skills England (SE)

This statement measures the financial impact of new regulations introduced or planned for introduction over a 6-month period.

It contains a summary of the financial costs of these regulations and measures DfE’s performance against the ‘one-in, two-out’ framework.

Each new regulation is categorised as:

• having a cost impact on businesses, defined as ‘in’
• having no costs associated with it, defined as ‘zero net’
• being part of savings made by modifying or removing existing regulations, defined as ‘out’

This statement measures the financial impact of new regulations the department introduced or planned to introduce over a 6-month period.

It contains a summary of the financial costs of these regulations and measures the department’s performance against the ‘one-in, two-out’ framework.

Each new regulation is categorised as:

• having a cost impact on businesses, defined as ‘in’
• having no costs associated with it, defined as ‘zero net’
• being part of savings made by modifying or removing existing regulations, defined as ‘out’

This statement measures the financial impact of new regulations the department introduced or planned to introduce over a 6-month period.

It contains a summary of the financial costs of these regulations and measures the department’s performance against the ‘one-in, two-out’ framework.

Each new regulation is categorised as:

• having a cost impact on businesses, defined as ‘in’
• having no costs associated with it, defined as ‘zero net’
• being part of savings made by modifying or removing existing regulations, defined as ‘out’

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

Details about employee numbers and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors.

The DfE group includes:

• Department for Education
• Education Funding Agency
• National College for Teaching and Leadership
• Standards and Testing Agency
• Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills
• Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
• The Office of the Children’s Commissioner

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

Contact

Publication of trade union facility time data usage submitted by organisations as required under the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017.

Details

Facility time is paid time-off during working hours for trade union representatives to carry out trade union duties.

All public-sector organisations that employ more than 49 full-time employees are required to submit data relating to the use of facility time in their organisation. The reporting period is 1 April to 31 March with submissions due by 31 July.

Data

1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/692717489c1eda2cdf0340e4/Facility-Time-24_25-Dataset.xlsx">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 24/25 (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 242 KB)
• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69271740345e31ab14ecf54b/Facility-Time-24_25-Dataset.ods">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 24/25 (ODS, 195 KB)

1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688788cf741b74390ff0e4b6/Facility-Time-23_24-Dataset.xlsx">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 23/24 (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 288 KB)
• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688788deb0e1dfe5b5f0e4ad/Facility-Time-23_24-Dataset.ods">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 23/24 (ODS, 277 KB)

1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/668d50267541f54efe51bc9e/Facility-Time-22_23-Dataset.xlsx">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 22/23 (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 453 KB)
• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/668d5032ab5fc5929851bca4/Facility-Time-22_23-Dataset.ods">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 22/23 (ODS, 443 KB)

1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6426d7177de82b00123133be/Facility_Time_21_22_Dataset-FV.xlsx">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 21/22 (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 254 KB)
• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6426d723ddf8ad000cac0b76/Facility_Time_21_22_Dataset-FV.ods">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 21/22 (ODS, 312 KB)

1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61680fb1d3bf7f56020e4ea2/202021-Facility-Time-Data.xlsx">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 20/21 (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 219 KB)
• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61680fc78fa8f52986e61ca2/202021-Facility-Time-Data1.ods">Facility Time Publication Regulations Data 20/21

Data for spending over £25,000 by:

• Department for Education (DfE)
• Standards and Testing Agency (STA)
• Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)

Information about the personal data that DfE processes about the education providers’ workforce including:

• teachers and staff working in schools, academies or colleges
• training providers
• employers of apprentices

The DfE personal information charter has details on the standards you can expect when we collect, hold or use your personal information.

Details about the number of people working for the DfE group, and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors.

The DfE group includes the:

• Department for Education (DfE)
• Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
• Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)
• Standards and Testing Agency (STA)
• Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC)
• Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
• Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
• Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB)
• Office for Students (OfS)
• Student Loans Company (SLC)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IFATE)
• LocatEd

The guide provides more detail on youth justice statistics presented in:

• the annual youth justice statistics bulletin
• the monthly youth custody report data tables and accompanying open data tables.

This is intended to be used as a guide to data sources, concepts and definitions.

Details about the number of people working for the DfE group, and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors.

The DfE group includes the:

• Department for Education (DfE)
• Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
• National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL)
• Standards and Testing Agency (STA)
• Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC)
• Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
• Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
• Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB)
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
• Office for Fair Access (OFFA)
• Student Loans Company (SLC)
• Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA)
• LocatEd

‘DfE external data shares’ includes:

• classification of data – understanding the data we share
• DfE external third-party data shares (approved by the Data Sharing Approvals Panel from May 2018 to 30 June 2025)
• regular DfE external third-party data shares supported by appropriate data sharing agreements as of June 2025
• third-party requests for data from the national pupil database (approved prior to April 2018 where data is still held by the requestor as at 30 June 2025)
• data shares with Home Office
• data shares with police and criminal investigation authorities
• data shares through court orders

DfE also provides external access to data under https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/30/section/64/enacted">Section 64, Chapter 5, of the Digital Economy Act 2017. Details of these data shares can be found in the https://uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/digitaleconomyact-research-statistics/better-useofdata-for-research-information-for-researchers/list-of-accredited-researchers-and-research-projects-under-the-research-strand-of-the-digital-economy-act/">UK Statistics Authority list of accredited projects.

Archive

Previous external data shares can be viewed in the https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/timeline1/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-external-data-shares">National Archives.

The data in the archived documents may not match DfE’s internal data request records due to definitions or business rules changing following process improvements.