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How schools can prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day.
Join an attendance hub to get support and resources to improve your approach to managing attendance and significantly reduce absence in your school.
Building Bulletin 93 (BB93) explains minimum performance standards for the acoustics of school buildings.
How schools and local authorities access and use the S2S secure data transfer system.
Statutory guidance on the responsibilities of local authorities and regional directors relating to schools and pupil referral units that require support or intervention.
What schools maintained by the local authority should do when setting up their whistleblowing procedure.
Guidance to help schools and local authorities understand their obligations in relation to the School Premises Regulations 2012.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the constitution of governing bodies of all local-authority-maintained schools.
How to make a whistleblowing disclosure about academies and post-16 providers.
Prohibiting unsuitable people from managing independent schools, academies and free schools or governing a local-authority-maintained school.
Explains the role of schools and academy trusts in supporting parents to access wraparound childcare.
Request a material change to an independent school (also known as a private school) registered with the Department for Education.
Information to help schools increase access to PE, physical activity and extra-curricular school sport, including examples of good practice.
How to apply for access to personal data from DfE and its executive agencies.
How we regulate and intervene in independent schools, and details of when we take legal action against unregistered schools.
Advice on when a school employee with a car driving licence may drive a minibus and when a section 19 permit might be required.
Non-statutory guidance and case studies for schools in England wanting to increase the length of their school week, including those delivering below the minimum 32.5 hours.
How maintained schools can apply to convert to academy status.
What pupil referral units (PRUs) interested in becoming alternative provision (AP) academies should do.
Guidance for local authorities and schools dealing with adults who have legal rights and responsibilities for a child.
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