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The Treasury Committee will question ministers at the Treasury and Department for Education (DfE) on student loans.

Parents will soon get clear, practical guidance to help them manage their children’s screen use - which could include advice on when a child should get their first smartphone. 

Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, spoke at the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Conference 2026 in Liverpool.

The Education and Health and Social Care committees have launched a survey to capture the individual experiences of young adults who have received mental health services.

Population pressures, staffing challenges and overcrowding have undermined staff and prisoner safety and the effectiveness of rehabilitation across the prison estate in England and Wales, the Welsh Affairs Committeewarns in a report published today.

The Committee has been investigating the access, affordability and quality of early years provision, among other issues including the safeguarding of children in early years settings.

The UK is cementing its status as a global magnet for cutting-edge scientific research, with a cohort of ten leading researchers set to take up new roles supported by the Global Talent Fund.

More children and young people with SEND will get specialist support without needing a diagnosis, as the government begins rolling out a new Experts at Hand service across England backed by new £1.8 billion investment.

On Thursday 11 June, members of the House of Lords will debate welfare reforms and youth unemployment.

We're making it easier for children to get specialist support in schools, early years and post-16 settings.

New data from the Office for Students (OfS) finds that, while the number of individual potential radicalisation cases managed by institutions overall has declined slightly, formal referrals to Prevent have increased by nearly 50 per cent.

The government is on track to meet its pledge to recruit and retain an additional 6,500 teachers after surpassing two thirds of its manifesto target with three years to go.

New project launched to explore how better data-sharing can help ensure kids are school ready, which will see local authorities and healthcare professionals gauging parents’ views and experiences of accessing early learning support.

Patients in so-called ‘dental deserts’ will benefit from the first sustained expansion of dental school places in nearly 20 years, with 50 extra dentists to be trained in the regions that need them most from 2027 onwards.

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DfE Update 3 June

04 June 2026

Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.

Ten million free breakfasts have been served to children across England through the government’s free breakfast club programme — unlocking 5 million hours of childcare and representing potential savings of up to £25 million in childcare costs for working families.

On 9 January 2026 the Office for Students (OfS) opened an investigation of Global Banking School Limited and Oxford Brookes University, specifically in relation to Oxford Brookes University students taught by Global Banking School Limited through a partnership between the...

This week, Deputy Chair of the Social Mobility Commission, Resham Kotecha, spoke at the Breaking Barriers Collective, an event hosted by the FE & Skills Collective and the Edge Foundation, focussed on solutions to help the UK’s over 1 million young people Not in Education,...

The Education and Work and Pensions Committees will take evidence from local government and charities working on the frontlines of the battle against child poverty about their experiences delivering the government’s child poverty strategy.

School learning environments across Scotland will become phone free under measures announced by Education Secretary Màiri McAllan.

Student loans: Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Education Minister to face questions

New guidance on screen use for children aged 5–16

Martyn Oliver's speech at the National Day Nurseries Association

Children and young people’s mental health: committees launch survey and announce first evidence session

Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation in Wales: Overcrowded prisons and workforce pressures undermining safety and rehabilitation, MPs warn

Are parents happy with early years childcare? MPs hear evidence on affordability and safeguarding

More leading researchers brought to the UK, while Horizon Europe performance strengthens in 2024

Local areas prepare new Experts at Hand teams

Lords debates welfare reforms and youth unemployment

Experts at Hand: Everything you need to know

Office for Students publishes new data on Prevent

Government hits 70% of pledge, two years into this parliament

Faster support for children to get school ready as Tech Sec vows to better connect public services

Brand new dental school places in 'dental deserts'

DfE Update 3 June

10 million free breakfasts served in schools across country

Investigation into Global Banking School Limited and Oxford Brookes University

No ‘one’ NEET solution: Social Mobility Commission Deputy Chair joins panel on the need for national and local collaboration across sectors

Committee session to examine reality of child poverty battle

Phone-free learning in Scottish schools