Running and managing a school

Governance, school admissions, premises, data collection and censuses, complaints, uniforms, setting up or changing a school's status.

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Services

1. Apply for a primary school place

   Apply for a state primary school place through your local council

2. Schools admissions

   Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints

3. Apply for a secondary school place

   Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council

4. Complain about a school or childminder

   Complain about a school or childminder - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted

5. 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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Guidance and regulation

1. What maintained schools must publish online
   • Detailed guide
   • 25 October 2018
   • Department for Education
2. School workforce census: guide to submitting data
   • Detailed guide
   • 30 October 2018
   • Department for Education
3. School workforce census 2018: guides
   • Guidance
   • 5 October 2018
   • Department for Education
4. What academies, free schools and colleges should publish online
   • Detailed guide
   • 25 October 2018
   • Department for Education
5. Governance handbook and competency framework
   • Guidance
   • 21 April 2017
   • Department for Education and Closed organisation: National College for Teaching and Leadership

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News and communications

13 November 2018 — Decision

Bellingham Middle School and Sports College

Office of the Schools Adjudicator

1. Holbeach Primary School
   • 8 November 2018
   • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
   • Decision
2. Reducing workload in schools: joint letter to all school leaders
   • 5 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Correspondence
3. Buxton School
   • 2 November 2018
   • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
   • Decision
4. St Aloysius Catholic Primary School
   • 31 October 2018
   • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
   • Decision

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Research and statistics

1. Secondary and primary school application and offers: 2018
   • 29 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
2. Public Appointments: Annual Report for Northern Ireland, 2016/17
   • 27 September 2018
   • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and The Executive Office (Northern Ireland)
   • Official statistics
3. Admissions appeals in England: academic year 2017 to 2018
   • 23 August 2018
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
4. Secondary school choice and selection: national preferences data
   • 9 August 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Research
5. Obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools
   • 18 July 2018
   • Ofsted
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools
   • 23 August 2018
   • Department for Education, Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency, and Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 25 August 2016
2. Staffing and employment advice for schools
   • 24 May 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 10 February 2016
3. Schools that work for everyone
   • 11 May 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 12 December 2016
4. Increasing flexible working in schools
   • 11 December 2017
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper
5. Sharing support staff across schools in a multi-academy trust
   • 20 January 2017
   • Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency
   • Case study

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Lancashire and West Yorkshire Headteacher Board
   • 15 November 2018
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
2. South-East England and South London Headteacher Board
   • 9 November 2018
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
3. East Midlands and the Humber Headteacher Board
   • 9 November 2018
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
4. East of England and North-East London Headteacher Board
   • 9 November 2018
   • Schools Commissioners Group
   • Transparency
5. Free schools: application information for wave 13
   • 7 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Office of the Schools Adjudicator
2. Department for Education
3. Education & Skills Funding Agency
4. Schools Commissioners Group
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

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1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. Department for Transport
3. Ministry of Defence
4. Public Health England
5. Standards & Testing Agency
6. Crown Commercial Service
7. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
8. Department for Work & Pensions
9. Department of Health & Social Care
10. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
11. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
12. Home Office
13. Rural Payments Agency

1. Ofsted
2. The Charity Commission
3. Natural England
4. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

Explore these sub-topics

1. Careers guidance in schools
2. Data collection and censuses for schools
3. Recruiting and managing non-teaching school staff
4. School admissions
5. School buildings and land
6. School complaints and whistleblowing
7. School food, accommodation, transport and uniform
8. School governance
9. School planning
10. School trips and extracurricular activity
11. School-to-school support
12. Setting up or changing the status of a school