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How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe weather.
Statutory guidance for schools about employing staff who have been disqualified from providing childcare.
How MATs can grow their trust, including using a trust partnership arrangement.
Assessment framework specification files for software suppliers developing management information systems (MIS).
Guide for schools and local authorities on unique pupil numbers (UPNs) and a tool for generating them.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the constitution of governing bodies of all local-authority-maintained schools.
The latest common basic data set (CBDS) and version control log for use by software suppliers developing management information systems.
Suggested privacy notices for schools and local authorities to issue to staff, parents and pupils about the collection of data.
Guidance for headteachers, chief executives and teachers during the pre-election period for local elections and general elections.
This Building Bulletin provides guidance on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools
Specification for software suppliers and local authorities preparing for the phonics screening check data collection 2024.
Guidance for managing staff and employment issues.
Information to help schools increase access to PE, physical activity and extra-curricular school sport, including examples of good practice.
Find out the requirements for the registration of independent schools, also known as private schools.
How to object to admission arrangements and how admission authorities can apply for an in-year variation or appeal against a direction to admit a child.
Information about academy admissions and the role of the Department for Education (DfE).
Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.
Guidance to help schools set out their policies on charging for school activities and visits.
Guidance on the standards for planning and providing food in schools.
Understand how to follow safeguarding procedures when planning remote education strategies and teaching remotely.
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