Guidance and regulation

How schools can prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 February 2024

Explains the role of schools and academy trusts in supporting parents to access wraparound childcare.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 27 February 2024

• Responding to requests for wraparound childcare

  This guidance will help schools and academy trusts understand how to…

Apply for a grant to train a senior mental health lead to develop your school or college's approach to mental health and wellbeing.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 5 April 2024

Statutory guidance that schools must follow when carrying out duties relating to school admissions.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 11 March 2022

Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 March 2024

Find out what help you can get to develop a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 February 2024

The information that schools maintained by their local authorities must or should publish on their websites.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 25 April 2023

Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 April 2024

How schools and colleges can meet IT service and digital equipment standards.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 24 January 2024

Guidance for schools and local authorities about providing school meals including information on free school meal eligibility.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 25 March 2024

Information that academies, including free schools, colleges and any educational institution with academy arrangements, must or should publish on their websites.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 17 April 2023

Updated non-statutory guidance for employers and staff who want to make arrangements for flexible working.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 8 April 2024

An explanation of the education staff wellbeing charter and the benefits of using it.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 January 2024

Guidance to help schools understand how the Equality Act affects them and how to fulfil their duties under the act.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 June 2018

The policies and processes schools and multi-academy trusts need to protect personal data and respond effectively to a personal data breach.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 3 April 2024

Local authorities’ responsibilities when making home-to-school travel arrangements for children of compulsory school age.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 25 January 2024

Guidance on how to use the view your education data service to access the monitor your school attendance tool.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 11 October 2023

Resources to help schools plan and provide healthy food in schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 7 February 2023

Statutory guidance on how schools should organise and run their pupil admission appeals.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 20 January 2023

Building Bulletin issue 100, providing a design guide for fire safety in schools.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 11 March 2014