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Technology: harnessing benefits
• How do artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies support existing ways of working across our sectors? What are the main opportunities for the future?
Department for Education, 2025
artificial intelligence
digital transformation
technology
workforce development
teaching practices
governance
systems thinking
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Technology: harnessing benefits
• How can digital and assistive technology support learners with SEND, including to participate in mainstream education settings?
Department for Education, 2025
special educational needs
technology
voice assistants
special educational needs and disabilities
social inclusion
speech and language
communication technologies
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Technology: harnessing benefits
• In what ways can AI (artificial intelligence) and other digital technology reduce workload, improve teaching quality, help track progress and improve outcomes? How can AI and digital technology impact on productivity, efficiency, and costs?
Department for Education, 2025
artificial intelligence
productivity
economic growth
skills system
workload
staff retention
monitoring
teaching practices
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Technology: harnessing benefits
• What are the potential long-term opportunities and challenges of AI (artificial intelligence) use across our sectors, and at all education stages?
Department for Education, 2025
artificial intelligence
digital literacy
technology
digital skills
digital divide
professional development
skills system
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Technology: harnessing benefits
How can we harness the potential benefits of technological advances (such as increased productivity across our sectors, or better-informed decisions by learners about opportunities), while keeping children safe?
Department for Education, 2025
child safety
digital literacy
productivity
technology
artificial intelligence
safeguarding
child protection
digital divide
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Technology: healthy use
• How can we equip parents, families, and carers to support children through safe access and use of technology outside educational settings?
Department for Education, 2025
parenting
technology
artificial intelligence
safeguarding
child protection
digital skills
digital literacy
digital divide
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Technology: healthy use
• What factors and characteristics support healthy use of technology (such as mobile phones and tablets) by children of different ages, and what impact do they have?
Department for Education, 2025
digital literacy
technology
social skills
social inclusion
social norms
artificial intelligence
digital skills
digital divide
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Technology: healthy use
• What impacts does social media use and screen time have on brain development, behaviour (including engagement in other activity), attainment, and health? How does this vary for different groups (including by age) and for different types of use?
Department for Education, 2025
health
attainment
classroom management
school attendance
school belonging
sports
clubs
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Technology: healthy use
How can we ensure that technology (including Artificial Intelligence), supports child and adolescent development, learning and health at all stages, from early years to adult education?
Department for Education, 2025
artificial intelligence
child development
health
technology
adult education
teaching practices
digital literacy
digital skills
digital divide
learning technologies
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Workforce: specialist and support
• Are there barriers affecting the availability of specialists (including for example, subject specialist teachers)? How might they be addressed?
Department for Education, 2025
workforce development
academics
special educational needs coordinators
special schools
recruitment barriers
retention barriers
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Workforce: development
What can we learn from other parts of the public sector, other sectors, and other programmes (e.g. NHS, parenting programmes) about professional training to develop knowledge and skills (e.g. about child development, on behaviour management, on how to improve leadership skills, how to improve workforce wellbeing, and how to use evidence)?
Department for Education, 2025
evidence-based practice
skills development
workforce training
workforce skills
public services
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Workforce: development
What difference does professional development of our workforces (including for specialist and support workforces and early years practitioners) make to children’s outcomes?
Department for Education, 2025
workforce development
educational outcomes
attainment
wellbeing
social mobility
disadvantaged groups
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Workforce: development
• How do we best update our workforce skills and knowledge to reflect changing needs and evidence (for example regarding knowledge of climate change, and knowledge and skills in using technology)?
Department for Education, 2025
climate change
technology
workforce development
workforce training
skills development
training
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Workforce: development
• What development opportunities are available for our workforces, how well do they meet our needs, and how attractive and accessible are they? Given the importance of professional development to retention, what are the best ways to ensure there are sufficient attractive and accessible development opportunities which engage the right people?
Department for Education, 2025
professional development
workforce development
skills development
retention
career progression
career development
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Workforce: development
• What new or additional knowledge and skills (including what level of knowledge and skills) do our workforces need (including in equipping our workforces to support children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities)?
Department for Education, 2025
workforce development
training
professional development
special educational needs coordinators
early years practitioners
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Workforce: development
What professional development is most appropriate at different career stages? How does it vary between different parts of the workforce and for different groups?
Department for Education, 2025
professional development
workforce
special educational needs coordinators
academics
early years practitioners
career progression
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Workforce: development
• What are the features of the design and delivery of cost-effective professional development, at scale? Why are these features effective?
Department for Education, 2025
professional development
workforce training
skills development
training
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Workforce: recruitment and retention
• What are the characteristics and motivations of returners to the education and social care workforces?
Department for Education, 2025
recruitment
retention
workforce
careers advice
careers information
retirement
career breaks
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Workforce: recruitment and retention
• What are the drivers, barriers, costs, and benefits of movements across our workforces?
Department for Education, 2025
recruitment
retention
skills development
transport
inclusion
discrimination
earnings
careers advice
career progression
career paths
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Workforce: recruitment and retention
• How can we promote resilience and wellbeing among our workforce cost-effectively?
Department for Education, 2025
resilience
wellbeing
workforce
staff engagement
stress
work culture
workload
leadership
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