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Information on how we allocate adult skills funding, loan facilities and bursaries, apprenticeships carry-in and non-levy extensions to providers.
Details of the key areas we would like to highlight.
A training bursary guide for schools and ITT providers.
Guide for local authorities to help them complete and return the 2025 phonics screening check data collection.
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.
Statutory guidance for local authorities and their partners to stop children going missing and to protect those who do.
Funding guidance for schools and ITT providers including bursaries, scholarships and salaried route grants.
Guidance on the standards for planning and providing food in schools.
Guidance on supervising the activities of workers and volunteers with children.
The financial freedoms and limits applying to academy trusts.
Find out what standards your school or college should meet when using or moving to cloud solutions, including managing access, availability, data protection and backup.
Benchmarking allows you to check how your finances compare with other similar schools or multi-academy trusts.
A planner showing key dates for payments, publications and academy actions, for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers about opening, closing or making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.
Financial handbook for independent training providers in receipt of funds from the Department for Education (DfE) or Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). This handbook is effective from 1 August 2024.
This guide explains how academies are paid and how to change bank details.
How MATs can grow their trust, including using a trust partnership arrangement.
Guidance to support billing authorities with the national non-domestic rates (NNDR) claims payment process.
Good practice for preventing personal data breaches in your school. It explains how to recognise and respond effectively to a personal data breach.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on supplying transport to students and trainees aged 16 and over.
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