Children, Education and Skills

Our Children, Education and Skills domain oversees the regulation of data and statistics concerning all stages of education from early years to university and beyond, including statistics on teachers and lecturers, learners, and looked after children.

Education and training, from providing the best start for young people to equipping the workforce, has a profound impact on the society, business and the economy of the countries of the UK. High quality statistics and data to support effective decision making and evaluate policy implementation are crucial.

Our planned work for 2024/25 covers a wide range of topics and statistics.

We recently carried out an assessment of the Higher Education (HE) Graduate Outcomes Data and Statistics produced by the Jisc under the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) brand. We published our report in April 2024 and confirmed the accreditation of the statistics without requirements for improvement.

We will ensure that our regulatory work continues to serve the public good. For example, we are providing support to the newly created Welsh Government Sponsored Body, Medr, which is responsible for a number of official statistics previously published by Welsh Government in an addition to outputs from the Higher Education Funding Council Wales (HEFCW). We will be reviewing the established official statistics and accredited official statistics that have been transferred from Welsh Government as well as supporting Medr in delivering its new official statistics publications.

We also continue to monitor developments around high-profile topics including attendance data, university finance, and teachers.

We advocate the use of new technologies by producers and continue to encourage data sharing in line with our recent recommendations. We will further consider what society’s key questions are in this area and support producers in answering them.

Contact our regulators for this domain via regulation@statistics.gov.uk

Planned Work

Published Correspondence – Children, Education and Skills domain

Publications – Children, Education and Skills domain