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Resources to help you promote staff wellbeing and support workload reduction in your school.
The framework and specification the Department for Education (DfE) uses to review the quality of apprenticeship training from providers.
Information on validating your data, resolving errors and checking any funding reports that use your school census return.
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities on using the monitor your school attendance tool.
Information to help local authorities complete and submit their APT for 2026 to 2027.
A course to help teachers learn how to lead the teaching and learning of a subject, year group or phase.
Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.
Advice on when a school employee with a car driving licence may drive a minibus and when a section 19 permit might be required.
Information to help schools increase access to PE, physical activity and extra-curricular school sport, including examples of good practice.
Guidance for schools on appraisal and capability policies.
Information about how we allocate 16 to 19 funding to institutions.
Guidance for training providers on the conditions for the apprenticeship provider and assessment register (APAR).
When to buy from a framework agreement, when to get bids or quotes and when to run a buying process compliant with the The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Act 2023.
Information on the framework used to procure school and public building construction works.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding for the free breakfast clubs programme rolled out from April 2026
Request a material change to an independent school (also known as a private school) registered with the Department for Education.
Guidance to help schools and local authorities understand their obligations in relation to the School Premises Regulations 2012.
Information on indicators of local authority early education services, and ways to compare an individual local authority to other local authorities.
Tools and templates to help identify the internal spaces needed in mainstream schools and colleges.
Information for Department for Education funded post-16 education and skills providers on the funding claims and reconciliation process.
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