Guidance and regulation

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

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

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

Guidance for school governing bodies on their role in creating their school's behaviour policy.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 24 September 2015

How local authority-maintained schools and maintained nurseries can set up or review their complaints procedures.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 January 2021

Prohibiting unsuitable people from managing independent schools, academies and free schools or governing a local-authority-maintained school.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 8 June 2022

Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the constitution of governing bodies of all local-authority-maintained schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 29 August 2017

Statutory guidance on local authorities' and regional directors' responsibilities relating to schools and PRUs causing concern.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 9 January 2024

Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers about opening, closing or making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 30 January 2023

Guidance for special schools providing residential accommodation for any child.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 5 September 2022

Guidance for local authorities and schools dealing with adults who have legal rights and responsibilities for a child.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 24 August 2023

How to arrange an effective external review of governance for your school or academy trust, and improve the performance of your board.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 December 2021

A resource to help promote, develop and sustain effective governance in your school.

• From: Closed organisation: National College for Teaching and Leadership
• Updated: 25 June 2014

Get help and support from system leaders to improve your school.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 6 November 2023

Information and forms for academy trust chairs of trustees to apply for a suitability check, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 17 December 2021

Guidance to help school leaders and governing bodies understand their obligations and duties.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 January 2014

Information to help school governors and academy trustees analyse and understand performance data for their school

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 1 September 2022

Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the collaboration of governing bodies in maintained schools in England.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 September 2003

Guidance on how to create, run and dissolve a federation.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 27 September 2022