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DfE Sign-in is how schools and other education organisations access DfE online services.

To access your DfE online services, you'll either need:

  • an existing DfE Sign-in account. This will be the email address and password you created when you first accessed DfE Sign-in
  • to create a DfE Sign-in account. If you haven't used DfE Sign-in before you'll need to create a DfE Sign-in account

Services accessed using your DfE Sign-in

These DfE services are now accessed using your DfE Sign-in account:

  • academy budget forecast return
  • accounts return
  • analyse school performance
  • apply to become an academy
  • apply for funding to study abroad (Turing scheme)
  • apprenticeship service admin
  • apprenticeship service bulk stop utility
  • apprenticeship service employer support tool
  • apprenticeship service for training providers
  • apprenticeship service identify data locks
  • apprenticeship service vacancy QA
  • assessment service
  • assessment service: develop an assessment
  • assessment service: manage your school’s assessments
  • assessment service: start an assessment
  • check a teacher's record
  • check the children’s barred list
  • child safeguarding incident notification system
  • claim additional payments for teaching
  • claim funding for mentor training
  • COLLECT
  • college financial data (CFD) service
  • customer help portal
  • DfE connect
  • document exchange
  • ESFA digital forms service
  • financial benchmarking and insights tool
  • get information about schools
  • get help buying for schools
  • get information about pupils
  • get my Ofsted inspection data summary report
  • hiring supply teachers and agency workers
  • issue education record
  • land and building collections tool (LBCT) service
  • manage your education and skills funding (MYESF)
  • multiplication tables check
  • national non-domestic rates (NNDR) claims
  • online collections service - including risk protection arrangements
  • plan technology for your school
  • publish to the course directory
  • register trainee teachers
  • related party transactions (RPT) service
  • school experience
  • school improvement and system leadership (SISL) CRM
  • school placements
  • school to school (S2S)
  • submit DBV SEND progress report (LAs)
  • submit learner data
  • submit learner data operations
  • T level results and certification
  • T levels - connect with employers
  • teacher services - appropriate body
  • teacher services - employer access - agent
  • teacher services - employer access - schools
  • teaching vacancies
  • view your education data (VYED)

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