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Advice for further education (FE) providers on how to define a sustainable FE estate and deliver sustainable capital investment.
Helping school governors get the best value from non-staff spend and understand the legal requirements for procurement.
Guidance for responsible bodies and education settings with confirmed reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in their buildings.
Guidance and templates to help free schools write their admission and referral policies.
What actions you should take in the first few months after your school opens as an academy.
The Department for Education's approach to supporting and regulating academy trusts.
Information about primary and secondary school design.
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
How eligible schools can claim money to support them as they convert to academies, and declare what portion of the grant they have spent.
The Future Leaders programme develops senior leaders to become headteachers in challenging schools.
What schools, academies and private schools need to do to get a religious character designation and open as a faith or church school.
Files for the electronic transfer of 2026 co-ordinated admissions data, primarily for use by software suppliers.
Technical documents for software suppliers for common transfer file (CTF) 20.
Technical documents for software suppliers for common transfer file (CTF) 24.
Guidance about climate-based daylight design for schools.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the collaboration of governing bodies in maintained schools in England.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on what happens if a school has a budget surplus or deficit when it converts to academy status.
Baseline design for a 240 place primary school with a 26 place nursery
Baseline designs for a 630 place primary school.
Statutory guidance for local authorities, under paragraph A19 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
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