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How local authorities should submit data for the annual school preference collections.
Guidance for independent schools to help them with the 2026 school-level annual school census (SLASC).
Guidance on what to do when school staff go on strike.
Updated non-statutory guidance for employers and staff who want to make arrangements for flexible working.
Guidance and templates to help free schools write their admission and referral policies.
How to plan and deliver tutoring to pupils and students.
An appropriate MIS can have a clear impact on pupil outcomes and staff workload.
How to transfer an academy from one trust to another.
What responsibilities you should transfer to your academy trust as part of your school's conversion to academy status.
Links to the apply to become an academy service for mainstream schools, the application process for special schools and PRUs, and information about notifying your local authority.
Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities completing returns for the 2026 and 2027 special educational needs person level surveys (SEN2).
A resource to help promote, develop and sustain effective governance in your school.
Model document to help community and church schools converting to academy status transfer their school's land to the academy trust.
Good practice guidance to help academy trusts with their management accounting process in line with the requirements of the academy trust handbook.
Help to implement flexible working, including a toolkit of resources, webinar training and support from flexible working ambassador multi-academy trusts and schools.
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual attendance measures census.
Guidance about the regulation of schools and academies as exempt charities.
Guidance to help schools meet their obligations under the Non-Maintained Special Schools (England) Regulations 2015.
Use this framework to buy musical instruments, equipment and technology from Department for Education (DfE) approved suppliers.
How to host educational access visits safely and within the terms of your Higher Level Stewardship agreement.
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