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Guidance to help schools and local authorities understand their obligations in relation to the School Premises Regulations 2012
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
Information explaining measures in the Schools Bill, which was introduced to Parliament in May 2022.
Resources to help you buy goods and services for your school, get better value and be compliant with procurement regulations.
Schools are responsible for your child's safety while they're at school or on a school trip
DCSF is now the Department for Education
How much PE and sport premium funding schools will receive for the academic year 2023 to 2024 and advice on how to spend it.
Information that schools need to follow or may find useful, including areas where rules or processes have changed.
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Every state school in England will now share their daily attendance registers across the education sector.
Statistics on the size and characteristics of the schools' workforce in state-funded schools.
Information that academies, including free schools, colleges and any educational institution with academy arrangements, must or should publish on their websites.
Find out when you'll need to involve the Secretary of State for Education and which forms you'll need to submit.
Government to launch consultation on lifting the 50% cap alongside proposals on opening special faith-based academies.
Get help and support from system leaders to improve your school.
We decide on objections and variations to admission arrangements, appeals from schools directed to admit pupils, significant changes to schools and ownership of school land. OSA works with the Department for Education .
These individuals must not manage independent schools, academies and free schools or be a governor at a local-authority-maintained school.
Documents relating to Ofsted's inspections of maintained schools and academies.
This guide gives a summary of what schools should expect and what they need to do as part of an Ofsted inspection.
Guidance on copyright licences and how copyright affects schools.
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