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Guidance on what to do when school staff go on strike.
Use destinations data and destination measures to provide careers guidance and improve outcomes for young people in schools.
Model document to help community and church schools converting to academy status transfer their school's land to the academy trust.
Supporting guidance for local authorities submitting the elective home education (EHE) and children missing education (CME) 2026 to 2027 academic year data collections.
How local authorities should collect and submit admission appeals data from all community and voluntary-controlled schools in their area.
How local authorities should collect phonics screening check data from all local-authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools.
Guidance about the regulation of schools and academies as exempt charities.
How schools and academy trusts can carry out workforce and resource planning.
Ready reckoners to calculate progress scores for pupils and schools, and key stage 2 transition matrices by key stage 1 prior attainment.
Best practice guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools, local authorities and academy trusts.
Guidance for school governing boards on the board’s role and responsibilities supporting pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities.
Get help and support from system leaders to improve your school.
Guidance for independent schools to help them with the 2026 school-level annual school census (SLASC).
Funding for local authorities to spend on home-to-school travel for children from low-income families from 2021 to 2025.
How business professionals working in schools can find, join or create a local network and benefit from the opportunities that networking offers.
Files for the electronic transfer of 2027 co-ordinated admissions data, primarily for use by software suppliers.
What responsibilities you should transfer to your academy trust as part of your school's conversion to academy status.
Information and guidance about fire safety in new and existing school buildings.
Links to the apply to become an academy service for mainstream schools, the application process for special schools and PRUs, and information about notifying your local authority.
Help for local authorities submitting the required data for the annual school capacity (SCAP) survey.
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