Guidance and regulation

Information for schools and universities on sharing expertise and resources through collaboration.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 October 2022

• Guide to setting up partnerships

  Introduction Universities, independent schools and state-funded schools…

• Partnership models guide

  Partnerships can take various forms, from simple collaborations between 2…

• Guide to writing a memorandum of understanding (MOU)

  Why formalise school partnerships? We want to harness the resources and…

Get support with teacher training and professional development from school-led centres of excellence.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 29 February 2024

Funding to support schools facing unexpected or imminent failure to improve in areas such as leadership, governance, safeguarding, human resources and finance.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 23 February 2023

Get help and support from system leaders to improve your school.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 6 November 2023

How school leaders can get support from other schools in their locality to improve a specific area of teaching or leadership.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 April 2023

Recommendations on future reforms to the current NLE programme.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 25 February 2020

A report on the work of teaching schools and how they are responding to the main areas of the teaching school role.

• From: Closed organisation: National College for Teaching and Leadership
• Updated: 12 March 2015

Information on how teaching schools, NLEs and NLGs designations are reviewed, the impact of a designation removal and how to appeal a decision.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 15 October 2018

Process for how to appeal against an unsuccessful application to become a system leader or teaching school.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2018

This privacy notice outlines the data the Department for Education processes to manage the designation of system leadership roles.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 12 October 2018