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Setting up or changing the status of a school

Converting to an academy. Opening a free or studio school, university or independent school. Set up a multi-academy trust (MAT).

Services

  1. Setting up a free school

    Set up a free school - find out what you need to do and how to increase your chance of success

  2. Model articles of association for academy trusts

    Template documents with standard articles of association for different types of academy trust.

  3. Independent school registration (England and Wales)

    You must register with the Department for Education or Welsh government if you run an independent school offering full time education

  4. Academy and free school funding agreement: single academy trust

    Model funding agreement for single academy trusts establishing new academies and free schools.

  5. Academy and free school funding agreement: multi-academy trust

    Model funding agreement for multi-academy trusts establishing new academies and free schools.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Academies: making significant changes or closure by agreement
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  2. School organisation: local-authority-maintained schools
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  3. Multi-academy trusts: establishing and developing your trust
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  4. Convert to an academy: guide for schools
    • Manual
    • Department for Education
  5. Schools causing concern
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
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News and communications

News story

New free schools to open across England

Department for Education

  1. Skills boost for the North as maths school to open in Liverpool
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  2. Interim National Schools Commissioner appointed
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  3. Lord Agnew: By working together we can achieve so much more
    • Department for Education
    • Speech
  4. Horton-in-Ribblesdale Church of England Primary School
    • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
    • Decision
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Research and statistics

  1. Academy sponsor profiles
    • Department for Education
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Schools that work for everyone
    • Department for Education
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 12 December 2016
  2. The Academy Conversions (Transfer of School Surpluses) Regulations 2013
    • Department for Education
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 07 November 2013
  3. 2010 to 2015 government policy: academies and free schools
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  4. Academy invests in technology to transform teaching and learning
    • Department for Education
    • Case study
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  2. East Midlands and the Humber headteacher board
    • Schools Commissioners Group
    • Transparency
  3. Lancashire and west Yorkshire headteacher board
    • Schools Commissioners Group
    • Transparency
  4. New school proposals
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  5. North of England headteacher board
    • Schools Commissioners Group
    • Transparency
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