Running and managing a school

Governance, school admissions, premises, data collection and censuses, complaints, uniforms, setting up or changing a school's status.

Services

  • Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.

  • Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation

  • Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.

  • Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders

  • Application processes for mainstream and special schools applying to convert to academy status.

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases