Schools, colleges and children's services

Running a school or college: detailed information

• From: Department for Education, Education and Skills Funding Agency, Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency, Office of the Schools Adjudicator, The Charity Commission
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  Department for Transport, Closed organisation: National College for Teaching and Leadership, and Welsh Government

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Statutory policies and guidance

• What maintained schools must publish online
• Equality Act 2010: advice for schools

Procurement for schools

• Buying for schools

Planning

• School organisation
• Religious character designation: guide to applying
• Wraparound and holiday childcare: responding to requests
• Collective worship in schools
• Standards for school premises
• School uniform: guidance for schools
• Charging for school activities

Governance

• Governance handbook and competency framework
• School Governance (Collaboration) Regulations 2003
• School governance regulations 2013
• Constitution of governing bodies of maintained schools
• School complaints procedures: guidance for maintained schools
• Charities and charity trustees: school governors
• Boarding schools: national minimum standards
• Non-Maintained Special Schools Regulations 2015
• Parental responsibility: guide for schools and local authorities
• Whistleblowing procedure for maintained schools

Admissions

• School admissions code
• School admissions appeals code
• Schools Adjudicator: make an objection, appeal or referral
• Fair access protocols in school admissions
• Summer-born children: school admission
• School admissions: pupil, service and early years premiums
• School admissions: applications for overseas children

Health and wellbeing

• Health and safety in schools
• Supporting pupils with medical conditions at school
• Counselling in schools
• Mental health and behaviour in schools
• First aid in schools
• Standards for school food in England
• Asbestos management assurance process (AMAP) user guide

Transport

• Home-to-school travel and transport
• Transport to education and training for people aged 16 and over
• Driving school minibuses advice: schools and local authorities

Strike action

• Handling strike action in schools

Intervention

• Schools causing concern
• Non-maintained special schools: intervention and accountability
• ESFA post-16: intervention and accountability
• Independent school action plans

Pupil data

• Data protection: privacy notice model documents
• Protection of children's biometric information in schools

Academies

• Academies: making significant changes or closure by agreement
• Apply to become a multi-academy trust
• Risk protection arrangement for academy trusts
• What academies, free schools and colleges should publish online
• Regulation of schools and academies with exempt charity status
• Church schools and academies: memoranda of understanding

Consultations

• Independent school inspection fees and standards
• Schools that work for everyone
• Ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools

Research and statistics

• Statistics: local authority and school finance