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Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, support and protect children.
Guidance for schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities on maintaining high levels of school attendance, including roles and responsibilities.
This toolkit provides examples to help you communicate with parents and…
Statutory guidance for local authorities and schools on how they work together to identify and support children missing education (CME) to receive a suitable education.
Statutory guidance about the support that pupils with medical conditions should receive at school.
Guidance on the suspension and permanent exclusion of pupils from local-authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units.
Guidance to help practitioners identify the signs of child abuse and neglect and understand what action to take.
Statutory guidance for local authorities, as well as headteachers and governing bodies of settings providing alternative provision.
How school staff can develop a behaviour policy.
The Department for Education (DfE)’s non-statutory standards for non-school alternative provision (also known as unregistered alternative provision).
Guidance about the use of physical restraint in schools for governing bodies, headteachers and school staff.
Find out how to report any concerns you have about a learner who you think may be susceptible to radicalisation into terrorism.
Support for those working in education settings with safeguarding responsibilities.
Summary of responsibilities where a mental health issue is affecting attendance and examples of effective practice.
Guidance explaining the powers schools have to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.
How schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour.
The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities on using the monitor your school attendance tool.
Statutory guidance for schools about employing staff who have been disqualified from providing childcare.
Support for school breakfast club provision.
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