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How local authorities, local-authority-maintained schools, and academies should collect and submit data for the school workforce census.
Prohibiting unsuitable people from managing independent schools, academies and free schools or governing a local-authority-maintained school.
Suggested privacy notices for schools and local authorities to issue to staff, parents and pupils about the collection of data.
Explains the role of schools and academy trusts in supporting parents to access wraparound childcare.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on providing careers guidance.
Guide for schools and local authorities on unique pupil numbers (UPNs) and a tool for generating them.
Statutory guidance for schools about employing staff who have been disqualified from providing childcare.
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities using the monitor your school attendance tool.
How schools and local authorities access and use the S2S secure data transfer system.
Generic design brief and technical annexes.
Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2024, spring 2025 and summer 2025.
Guides for schools and local authorities submitting data using COLLECT.
Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2024 to 2025 school census data.
Statutory guidance on developing a school uniform policy and managing uniform suppliers to ensure the cost of school uniforms is reasonable.
How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe weather.
Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State.
Standards and guidance on the area of school buildings and grounds, and the number of pupil places available in school buildings.
How schools can prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the constitution of governing bodies of all local-authority-maintained schools.
How local authority-maintained schools and maintained nurseries can set up or review their complaints procedures.
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