Our society is shaped by those who work with children and young people – you support them to develop, explore and learn. You drive improvements and increase opportunity for the next generation. Your expertise and understanding of what they needs is central to everything that this government wants to achieve.
This is why it’s so important that you take the opportunity to share your views with the DfE. Your work is vital, and sharing your ideas and reflections gives us invaluable insight into you experiences that can help shape policy.
Take part in surveys, polls and answer targeted questions on key priority areas to help drive improvements and overcome challenges together.
Ways to get involved
Schools:
Schools:
Children’s social care workers:
What’s the simplest practical change DfE could make to improve your working life?
Tell us your views on this month's topic
Each month we ask you what topic you think we should run a consultation on. This month you wanted to share your views on XX.
Have your say on school attendance
We’re supporting schools to boost attendance through a range of initiatives and have published guidance on how we, parents, schools, Trusts, governing bodies and local authorities can work together to make sure pupils go to school. This will be made statutory from August 2024, meaning it will be a legal requirement for schools to follow the guidance. We want to hear your thoughts on how was can support you, as teachers and school leaders, to manage school attendance. ...
The impact of sharing your experiences
Here are some issues we have consulted on and their outcomes.
We asked
What are the main barriers to requesting flexible working options in your school?
You said
You told us about how fixed timetables limited options, how school leaders / parents were resistant to change, your concerns about existing high workload and how you didn’t know how to ask / what to ask for.
We did
Published a range of materials designed by schools who have successfully embedded a culture of flexible working to outline options and model how these barriers can be addressed [link].