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Explains the role of schools and academy trusts in supporting parents to access wraparound childcare.
Support for maintained school governing bodies, academy trust boards, leaders and governance professionals (clerks) in developing sustainable and effective governance.
Guidance to help schools set out their policies on charging for school activities and visits.
What schools maintained by the local authority should do when setting up their whistleblowing procedure.
Statutory guidance on the responsibilities of local authorities and regional directors relating to schools and pupil referral units that require support or intervention.
Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.
Request a material change to an independent school (also known as a private school) registered with the Department for Education.
Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2025, spring 2026 and summer 2026.
Advice on when a school employee with a car driving licence may drive a minibus and when a section 19 permit might be required.
Guidance for managing staff and employment issues.
Prohibiting unsuitable people from managing independent schools, academies and free schools or governing a local-authority-maintained school.
Understand how to follow safeguarding procedures when planning remote education strategies and teaching remotely.
Guidance to help schools and local authorities understand their obligations in relation to the School Premises Regulations 2012.
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.
Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2026 and 2027 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.
Find out about the CDC2 programme and when preliminary meetings and school site visits will take place.
Information to help schools increase access to PE, physical activity and extra-curricular school sport, including examples of good practice.
How local authorities, local-authority-maintained schools, and academies should collect and submit data for the school workforce census.
Guidance on the standards for planning and providing food in schools.
Guidance for local authorities to complete the data collection.
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