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GOV-DFE-009 Sovereign Education Benchmarks ("Sovereign Benchmark", i.AI) → Sovereign Benchmark (AI tutoring benchmarks) full entry on the Cabinet Office page
GOV-DFE-035 Ofsted and "Ofsted's approach to AI" → "Ofsted's approach to AI" (24 April 2024; re-issued 21 October 2025) full entry on the Ofsted page
GOV-DFE-036 Ofsted: AI Writing Assistant (Social Care) → Ofsted ATRS record: "AI Writing Assistant (Social Care)" (published 12 November 2025; retired) full entry on the Ofsted page
GOV-DFE-038 Ofqual → "Ofqual's approach to regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the qualifications sector" (24 April 2024; replaced 16 July 2026) full entry on the Ofqual page
GOV-DFE-040 Skills England: AI skills tools and "Skills for AI" report → Skills England full entry on the Work and Pensions page
GOV-DFE-041 TechFirst (£187m) — TechYouth, TechGrad, TechExpert, TechLocal → TechFirst and the Digital and Technologies Jobs Plan full entry on the DCMS page
GOV-DFE-042 i.AI education partnership (AI Tutoring Tools, Sovereign Benchmark, AI Infrastructure for Education) → AI Infrastructure for Education (Digital Curriculum data infrastructure) full entry on the Cabinet Office page

Identity

As written in the research. Data as of 28 October 2026 (edition 2.1).

official nameDepartment for Education

short labelDfE

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-e

headquartersSanctuary Buildings, 20 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT (address as supplied in the research brief; the GOV.UK organisation page opened on 2026-10-28 shows only an FOI address, "Department for Education, Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester, M1 2WD", and the About page says "Our staff are based at our ministerial offices in London"), postcode SW1P 3BT, lat 51.49803, lng -0.130014 (sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education ; https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about ; https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1P3BT) [DfE FOI address, Manchester: M1 2WD, lat 53.478727, lng -2.229077 — reference only, not mapped (reference only: an FOI address, not the headquarters; do not use as the DfE marker)]

parent (as of 2026-10-28)HM Government (ministerial department; no parent)

previous parent / parent changednone. Note: two bodies formerly in DfE's orbit have moved. Skills England is now "an executive agency" sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions (GOV.UK page, 2026-10-28). The TechFirst programme pages published 19 October 2026 are owned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

blurbThe department for schools, colleges, universities and children's services in England; it sets the rules for generative AI in classrooms, funds Oak National Academy's AI lesson assistant and has 14 systems on the algorithmic transparency register.

website still shows old brandingno for DfE itself. But linked pages still say "Department for Science, Innovation and Technology": the i.AI site (https://ai.gov.uk/) says i.AI "sits within the Department for Science Innovation and Technology"; the DfE AI tutoring press release of 16 April 2026 refers to "DSIT's Incubator for AI".

Gaps the research left open

14Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

Aila usage figures: the leads file claims "60,000+ teachers", "95,000+ lesson plans", "280,000+ resources" and a "25%" / "4 hours a week" EEF result. None of these appear on the Oak ATRS record, the Oak 2024-25 annual report, the Oak blog of 6 October 2026, the EEF project page or the NFER report. The verified result is 48.6 minutes a week. The Oak blog index (https://www.thenational.academy/blog) could not be fetched (URL provenance block). — Partly closed (Supplement 1): Blog index and AI category opened. Oak's posts give no count of Aila users. Oak states: a sample of "over 10,000 lessons created through Aila" (July 2025); 4,985 AI-generated lessons evaluated (January 2025); "Thousands of teachers" use Create with AI, "around five times as much" as inside Aila (October 2026); Aila users saved 49 minutes a week in the EEF trial. New GOV-DFE-044, GOV-DFE-045; S1 GOV-DFE-015, GOV-DFE-016. The 16 June 2026 post "How AI gets lesson planning wrong", the 9 April 2025 "top 5 questions" post and the 6 September 2024 launch post did not open (permission timed out).
The "£22m DfE funding" for Aila in the leads file matches Oak's total 2024-25 grant-in-aid (£22.0m), not an Aila-specific sum.
The "£2.5m EEF trial programme (June 2026)" on GenAI and pupil cognition in the leads file was not found on any page opened.
DfE HQ: the GOV.UK organisation and About pages do not show Sanctuary Buildings; the address is recorded as supplied in the brief and flagged.
Ofqual's and OfS's own news pages (https://www.ofqual.gov.uk/news-and-blog/ and https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/) were blocked (provenance). OfS AI pages were reached via search. No Ofqual AI publication was found.
Office for Students chair and current chief executive are not named on its GOV.UK page; Josh Fleming is "Interim Chief Executive" in a May 2026 release only.
The "Generative AI and data protection in schools" guidance (in the Using technology in education collection) was not opened.
The Oak independent review PDFs were not opened; conclusions on Aila are not recorded.
Where i.AI now sits after the July 2026 machinery changes is not stated on any page opened; its site still says DSIT.
Whether the January 2025 £1m (16 developers) and the June 2025 "£1 million in Contracts for Innovation" are the same money is not stated.
Education Secretary succession: Lucy Powell is Secretary of State on 2026-10-28; Bridget Phillipson held the post to at least January 2026. The change date was not found.
The DfE SME action plan, "Every child achieving and thriving" white paper (Feb 2026) and the DfE annual report 2024-25 were checked only at page level; the white paper's summary page contains no AI mention.
No GOV.UK page was opened for the "Growth and skills levy" or Skills England's "AI skills for the UK workforce" (Nov 2025) report.
Partly closed (Supplement 1): Office for Students AI work — OfS news index opened but shows only items from March–May 2025, including the 7 May 2025 student debrief on AI (S3 education Past events). The OfS AI in higher education page is unchanged (findings "later this year"; not yet published). No new OfS AI record was justified; none minted.

Closed by Supplement 1 (1)

STA and Skills England "lat/lng not fetched" — S1b GOV-DFE-019, 040

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