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How local authority-maintained schools and maintained nurseries can set up or review their complaints procedures.
Optional key stage 1 (KS1) English grammar, punctuation and spelling test materials used in 2025.
A course to help teachers learn how to become a teacher educator and successfully support teachers to expand their skills in their educational setting.
Scaled score conversion tables for schools to use for the optional 2026 national curriculum tests at the end of key stage 1 (KS1).
The Department for Education (DfE)’s non-statutory standards for non-school alternative provision (also known as unregistered alternative provision).
Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State.
How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe weather.
Best-practice standards for early years teachers.
Guidance and documents setting out expectations for local authorities and integrated care boards to develop and deliver their Experts at Hand offer in year 1.
Optional English reading test materials used in May 2024.
Information for school leaders about the RISE attendance and behaviour hubs programme, its benefits and support, and how to join.
Latest information and deadlines relating to primary school assessments, provided by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA).
The rules for apprenticeship unit funding.
Technical specification for submitting 2026 to 2027 school census data.
The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).
How local authorities, local-authority-maintained schools, and academies should collect and submit data for the school workforce census.
Guidance and resources to support the delivery of apprenticeships through the Growth and Skills levy.
Which forms you need to complete when submitting a school land transaction proposal and when you need to involve the Secretary of State for Education.
Guidance to help schools set out their policies on charging for school activities and visits.
Guidance for local authorities and eligible public sector early years providers on the early years teachers’ pay grant (EYTPG) for the 2026 to 2027 financial year.
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