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Guidance for school governing bodies on their role in creating their school's behaviour policy.
Support for maintained school governing bodies, academy trust boards, leaders and governance professionals (clerks) in developing sustainable and effective governance.
Guidance for special schools providing residential accommodation for any child.
Find out about the CDC2 programme and when preliminary meetings and school site visits will take place.
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual attendance measures census.
Demonstrating the application of the Department for Education's employer's requirements for a 6 form entry secondary school with a 225-place sixth form.
Guides for schools and local authorities on submitting data for the school workforce census 2025.
Guidance for schools on writing statutory end of year reports for parents.
The processes proposer groups will need to follow and the resources they can use to open successfully.
Guidance for employers and staff who want to make arrangements for flexible working.
Information on how the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies share personal data.
What schools maintained by the local authority should do when setting up their whistleblowing procedure.
Demonstrating the application of the Department for Education’s employer's requirements for a 2 form entry primary school with a 52-place nursery.
How maintained schools can apply to convert to academy status.
How to create an academies complaints procedure that complies with the Education (Independent School Standards) (England) Regulations 2014.
Schools adjudicator decisions on opening, closing and making significant changes (prescribed alterations) to maintained schools.
What pupil referral units (PRUs) interested in becoming alternative provision (AP) academies should do.
Design guide for early years settings, focused on school-based nurseries.
Use this form to apply to make tier 1 significant changes to an academy.
The process for establishing new schools before 1 September 2026 through the free school presumption route, and the qualities school proposers must demonstrate.
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