Running and managing a school
Governance, school admissions, premises, data collection and censuses, complaints, uniforms, setting up or changing a school's status.
Services
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Complain about a school
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
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Childcare out of school hours
Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders
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School meals - healthy eating standards
Find out what the healthy eating standards in schools are
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Find before and after school and holiday clubs
Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation
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Careers helpline for teenagers
Information and advice about what career choices are available for teenagers and young adults in England - National Careers Service
Guidance and regulation
- Critical workers and vulnerable children who can access schools or educational settings
- Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
- What’s working well in remote education
- Standards for school food in England
- Remote Education Temporary Continuity Direction: explanatory note
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Attitudes to education and children’s services
- Evaluation of the school improvement offer 2019 to 2020
- Holiday activities and food: literature review
- Evaluation of the 2019 holiday activities and food programme
- Asbestos data collections
Policy papers and consultations
- Standards for boarding schools and residential special schools
- Regulating independent educational institutions
- Changes to the School Admissions Code
- School security: draft guidance
- Moving excise goods as freight under the Northern Ireland Protocol from 1 January 2021
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- East Midlands and the Humber headteacher board
- Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
- North-west London and south-central England headteacher board
- Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs
- South-West England headteacher board
Organisations
Explore sub-topics
- Careers guidance in schools
- Data collection and censuses for schools
- Recruiting and managing non-teaching school staff
- School admissions
- School buildings and land
- School complaints and whistleblowing
- School food, accommodation, transport and uniform
- School governance
- School planning
- School trips and extracurricular activity
- School-to-school support
- Setting up or changing the status of a school