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Guidance to help schools understand how the Equality Act affects them and how to fulfil their duties under the act.
Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State.
Prohibiting unsuitable people from managing independent schools, academies and free schools or governing a local-authority-maintained school.
How local authority-maintained schools and maintained nurseries can set up or review their complaints procedures.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the constitution of governing bodies of all local-authority-maintained schools.
Guidance for school governing bodies on their role in creating their school's behaviour policy.
Statutory guidance on local authorities' and regional directors' responsibilities relating to schools and PRUs causing concern.
Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers about opening, closing or making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.
How to arrange an effective external review of governance for your school or academy trust, and improve the performance of your board.
Guidance for local authorities and schools dealing with adults who have legal rights and responsibilities for a child.
Get help and support from system leaders to improve your school.
Guidance to help school leaders and governing bodies understand their obligations and duties.
Information and forms for academy trust chairs of trustees to apply for a suitability check, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
A resource to help promote, develop and sustain effective governance in your school.
Guidance for special schools providing residential accommodation for any child.
A presentation setting out our vision for school governance and summarising 5 key policy objectives.
Guidance on how to create, run and dissolve a federation.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the collaboration of governing bodies in maintained schools in England.
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