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Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State.
How MATs can grow their trust, including using a trust partnership arrangement.
Find out the requirements for the registration of independent schools, also known as private schools.
Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.
The process you need to follow to apply to set up a new special free school.
How we regulate and intervene in independent schools, and details of when we take legal action against unregistered schools.
How maintained schools can apply to convert to academy status.
Request a material change to an independent school (also known as a private school) registered with the Department for Education.
How to prepare for your school's application to convert to an academy.
What actions to take following approval of your academy conversion application.
What pupil referral units (PRUs) interested in becoming alternative provision (AP) academies should do.
Model documents to help church schools converting to academies, plus supporting documents.
Guidance for proposers looking to set up new mainstream free schools. This includes 16 to 19 free schools.
Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers about opening, closing or making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.
Deadlines for schools converting to academy status.
The processes proposer groups will need to follow and the resources they can use to open successfully.
Guidance for partnerships seeking to establish a new alternative provision (AP) free school.
Best practice guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools, local authorities and academy trusts.
Guidance on establishing new schools through the free school presumption route, and the qualities new school proposers must demonstrate.
Model document to transfer contracts and staff from a school to an academy trust as part of the academy conversion process.
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