Guidance and regulation

This guidance provides details on how to register, manage your account and allocate user roles for Identity and Access Management System (IDAMS).

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 14 January 2022

Guidance on copyright licences and how copyright affects schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 April 2022

How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks.

• From: Crown Commercial Service and 1 others
• Updated: 14 January 2019

Guide to help academy trusts and diocesan users submit their land and buildings collection tool to the ESFA.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 9 November 2023

Sources of training and support for school business professionals in schools, trusts and other organisations.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 January 2022

Guidance for academy trusts looking to provide employees with the option to enter a salary sacrifice for electric vehicles

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 22 December 2023

How organisations can bid for contracts as a consortium, including the relevant requirements set out in the invitation to tender (ITT).

• From: Cabinet Office and 1 others
• Updated: 8 September 2020

Framework outlining the knowledge, skills and behaviours that chief executive officers need to effectively lead a large trust.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 11 September 2023

Financial management and governance self-assessment (FMGS) for new academy trusts to submit to ESFA.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 1 September 2023

Information to help academy trusts manage the risk of fraud and report instances of fraud to the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 20 June 2023

Guide and links to further information about financial returns academy trusts submit to the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 31 July 2023

Guide to help academies complete the budget forecast return

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 3 April 2024

How the Department for Education uses progress and spending data to calculate an efficiency metric for schools in England.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 12 January 2016

Guidance for academy trusts and auditors to complete their accounts return.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 31 January 2024

Help with planning school finances and resources – tools and advice from the Department for Education (DfE).

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 9 November 2018

Information to help local authorities complete and submit their APT for 2024 to 2025

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2023

Guidance for local authorities on the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) DSG management plan

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 19 March 2024

Guidance for academy trusts declaring or seeking approval for related party transactions (RPTs).

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 1 September 2023

A notice to improve issued to Woodcote High School by the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 31 March 2023

Briefing about the Education and Skills Funding Agency's assurance work relating to the financial management and governance of the academies sector in 2022 to 2023

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 13 September 2023