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Guidance to help schools and local authorities understand their obligations in relation to the School Premises Regulations 2012.
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.
Statutory guidance for local authority children’s services on representations and complaints procedures.
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2025 to 2026.
Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.
Materials that concentrate on activities to promote speaking and listening skills, phonological awareness and oral blending.
First published during the 1997 to 2007 Blair Labour government
Technical guidance on primary school accountability measures.
Holding school leaders to account for the school’s educational and financial performance and ensuring money is well spent.
Find out what standards your school or college should meet on laptops, desktops and tablets.
Tools and templates to help identify the internal spaces needed in mainstream schools and colleges.
This guide explains how academies are paid and how to change bank details.
Explains to learners how their qualification data is used if they allow others to see their personal learning record.
Information on the scope of, and business rationale for, the school workforce census 2025.
A course to help teachers learn how to effectively teach and promote literacy across the whole school, year group, key stage or phase.
Guidance for local authorities about the 2025 summer and autumn termly data collections for the early years entitlements for eligible working parents of 2-year-olds and under.
Explains the role of schools and academy trusts in supporting parents to access wraparound childcare.
Tools to help schools assess their behaviour culture, recognise good practice and identify areas that need attention.
An overview of the important policies, processes and documents schools should have.
The national minimum standards that boarding schools must meet to safeguard and protect the children in their care.
Funding available to training providers and placement schools for initial teacher training (ITT) in 2025 to 2026.
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