Running and managing a school

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

Services

  • Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation

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

  • Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders

  • Information and advice about what career choices are available for teenagers and young adults in England - National Careers Service

  • Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases