Know the Structure of Education from Early Years to Post-Compulsory Education.

Early years education is provided for children from age two, starting the term after their second birthday, early years providers can be a registered childminder, crèche and nurseries. The government have provided funding of 15 hours free each week, however there is eligibility criteria to meet; for example a parent claiming job seeker allowance, or child tax/working tax credits with an annual income of less than £16,190. All early years provided are inspected and regulated by Ofsted, there are detailed reports that can be found on A list of early years providers can also be found on this web page. The amount of funding that is provided depends on the number of 2 years old that were in early year provisions within each area. you would be able to find information and guidance on this at This tells you the number of places which have been provided an also an average hourly rate. in Northumberland there are 929 LA with a rate of £4.85 per hour. Once a child turns three they are automatically entitled to free education within a nursery school, depending on when there birthday is will determine when the start. A child who's birthday is February will then start nursery in the April term.

Faith schools follow religion for example Christianity, Catholic, Muslim and other religious schools can still be a free school, academy or voluntary aided and are run like other state schools. they follow national curriculum but do not have to comply with religious studies as they are free to learn about there religion only however this is still regulated by Ofsted.
Government funded 'Free Schools' which are not ran by the local authorities. These schools have more freedom and control on how they run things for example staff and pay scale and they can also alter term length and when school starts and finishes.
Academies are publicly funded and independent. they do not...