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Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Guidance for local authorities, schools and colleges on the core schools budget grant (CSBG) for 2025 to 2026. CSBG allocations and conditions of grant are also published here.
How regional Prevent education co-ordinators (RPECs) can help education providers with the Prevent duty.
Statutory guidance for local authorities, as well as headteachers and governing bodies of settings providing alternative provision.
Statutory guidance about the support that pupils with medical conditions should receive at school.
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
The national curriculum secondary programmes of study and attainment targets for key stages 3 and 4.
Information on validating your data, resolving errors and checking any funding reports that use your school census return.
The statutory programmes of study and attainment targets for science at key stages 1 to 4.
Find out when the school census will open for each term and what to do in unusual circumstances.
A subject access request (SAR) is a type of information rights request. A SAR lets people access a copy of the personal data a school holds about them or someone they have parental responsibility for.
Guidance on the strategic leadership and governance of local-authority-maintained schools.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on the National Insurance contributions (NICs) grant for financial year 2025 to 2026.
How school staff can develop a behaviour policy.
How schools and colleges can meet IT service and digital equipment standards.
The qualifications that staff must hold to be included in the specified staff:child ratios at levels 2, 3 and 6 of the early years foundation stage (EYFS).
Guidance on strategic leadership and the governance of academy trusts.
A framework to support trainee teacher development, designed with an expert advisory group.
How school groups can reduce processing time when travelling by ferry from Dover to Calais.
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