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Guidance for academies and academy trusts on record keeping and retention.
Guidance for responsible bodies on how to select and appoint structural engineers.
Information and guidance about fire safety in new and existing school buildings.
Formal agreements between the Department for Education (DfE), the Church of England and the Catholic Church.
What actions you should take in the first few months after your school opens as an academy.
How local authorities should submit information about reviews of cases where schools have suspended or expelled pupils.
Apply to the Secretary of State for Education for consent for, or notification of, a transaction involving school land.
Guidance to support building users, premises managers and senior leadership teams to reduce energy, costs and carbon use.
Guidance on how to create, run and dissolve a federation.
Promotional materials outling the benefits of flexible working in schools.
What to do if a laptop or tablet you’ve received from a DfE programme is not working.
Information for maths schools proposer groups with an approved business case. Includes legal requirements and tasks you must complete.
Guide for local authorities completing the school preference data collections 2026.
The tasks that groups proposing to open a university technical college (UTC) need to complete before they open their school.
What governors of foundation, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled and academy schools need to know about being charity trustees.
Guidance for governors and school leaders considering becoming part of a multi-academy trust.
Guidance for local authorities to complete the data collection.
Guide to help general hospital schools complete their 2026 census.
COLLECT user guide for local authorities submitting the 2016 key stage 1 return.
Guidance to help schools and colleges plan, prioritise and deliver estate improvements that address condition, suitability, resilience and decarbonisation.
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