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- Every Child Matters
- SEAL
- Delivering 14-19 Reform: Next Steps
- Special Educational Needs
- Early Years Foundation Stage
- Threshold Round 9
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Our purpose
The purpose of the Department for Children, Schools and Families is to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. We want to:
- make children and young people happy and healthy
- keep them safe and sound
- give them a top class education
- help them stay on track.
Our Children’s Plan sets out how we can achieve our ambitions.
News
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5 November 2008
Online directory of extended schools launched
Children’s Minister calls on parents to demand more out-of-hours activities at their local schools
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3 November 2008
Balls welcomes report on admissions code compliance
Written Ministerial Statement on the Office of the Schools Adjudicator’s annual report
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28 October 2008
£13 million to help youngsters in trouble
Beverley Hughes announces help for 20 areas to set up Intensive Intervention Projects for young people




