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Find out about the net capacity assessment (NCA) programme, when school site visits will take place and how to read your NCA report.
Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.
Guidance on supervising the activities of workers and volunteers with children.
Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers about opening, closing or making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.
Guidance to help education and training providers manage the risk of fraud, including prevention, detection and reporting.
Tools and templates to help identify the internal spaces needed in mainstream schools and colleges.
Guidance for schools on writing statutory end of year reports for parents.
Get support with teacher training and professional development from school-led centres of excellence.
Guidance explaining the role of schools taking part in the breakfast clubs early adopter programme.
Guidance on the functions, skills, knowledge and training needed to manage the school estate.
Information on the framework used to procure school and public building construction works.
School-specific brief template and annexes.
Guidance for proposers looking to set up new mainstream free schools. This includes 16 to 19 free schools.
Information for schools and universities on sharing expertise and resources through collaboration.
How independent schools must collect and submit data for the school-level annual school census (SLASC).
Guidance for school leaders, governors, local authorities and academy trusts about managing asbestos in schools and colleges.
Information on how the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies share personal data.
How local authorities should report data for the annual special educational needs survey, commonly known as SEN2.
Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2026 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.
How MATs can grow their trust, including using a trust partnership arrangement.
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