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Identify the steps you need to take to buy goods and services for your school and stay compliant.
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual children looked after return (also known as SSDA903).
What you need to do in the apprenticeship service to support employers, add and approve apprenticeships for funding.
Find out what standards your school or college should meet on copper cabling, optical fibre cabling and installation.
Guidance for institutions delivering post-16 education on the National Insurance contributions (NICs) grant for financial year 2025 to 2026.
How local authorities and early years settings should provide the entitlement for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds.
Statutory and operational guidance for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities as child death review partners.
The latest common basic data set (CBDS) and version control log for use by software suppliers developing management information systems.
Guidance to help education and training providers manage the risk of fraud, including prevention, detection and reporting.
How we regulate and intervene in independent schools, and details of when we take legal action against unregistered schools.
Find out about the net capacity assessment (NCA) programme, when school site visits will take place and how to read your NCA report.
This guidance outlines 'staying put' arrangements that enable care leavers to remain with their former foster carers after they turn 18.
How to make a whistleblowing disclosure about academies and post-16 providers.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding to support the early career teacher entitlement (ECTE)
Guidance for suppliers under wave 3 and Jaggaer projects funded by DfE, including who is eligible to learn, how to report data and how it is evaluated.
An overview of strategic leadership for maintained schools.
Information to help schools increase access to PE, physical activity and extra-curricular school sport, including examples of good practice.
Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2025, spring 2026 and summer 2026.
Information for schools and universities on sharing expertise and resources through collaboration.
Shows the scheduled maintenance dates for the LRS organisation portal and the uploading individualised learner record (ILR) achievement data testing.
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