This joint consultation document, from the DCSF and Ofsted, starts an ongoing process of discussion about the content, design and use of the School Report Card, which aims to improve how schools’ performance is reported to parents, communities and other stakeholders.

This Green Paper outlines all the bills and priorities that the Government intends to take forward to be considered by Parliament next year. There will also be a period of consultation, where the public will have the opportunity to comment on the bills and actions within the document.

This consultation is being run by the DCSF to gather views on proposals for a new independent regulator of qualifications and tests. The new regulator will build on the QCA's work to safeguard standards of assessment and the QCA will become a development agency for curriculum, assessment and qualifications.

The consultation closes on 10 March 2008. A response form can be downloaded or you can respond online by visiting: www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations/conDetails.cfm?consultationId=1519

This report presents the issues arising from a small scale investigation focusing on pupils who are at risk of not converting a Level 4 in English, mathematics or science at Key Stage 2 into a Level 5 at the end of Key Stage 3.

The Government is thinking about changing the law so that young people have to stay in education or training until they turn 18. This magazine explains what’s behind the plan and asks young people what they think about it.

This consultation document looks in detail at the rates of progress that pupils are making at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3.

This consultation pack consists of the draft School Admissions and School Admission Appeal Codes and regulations that will come into force in February 2007, subject to this consultation and the approval of Parliament.

This study examined the representativeness of local communities within the school admissions system by comparing the profile of pupils in schools with that of pupils in the local communities, using school and pupils' home postcodes.

This consultation seeks views on a package of reforms to the Teacher's Pension Scheme (TPS) agreed through extensive negotiations between the Department, teacher and lecturer unions, and employer organisations.

The Government have recognised that schools have a major role to play in securing the future for young people by stating its desire for all schools to become models of sustainable development for their communities by creating a national framework for sustainable development.