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How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe weather.
How academies can apply for funding to help pay for costs they have incurred hearing school admission appeals between September 2024 and October 2025.
This Building Bulletin provides guidance on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities on using the monitor your school attendance tool.
How local authorities should collect phonics screening check data from all local-authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools.
Guides for schools and local authorities submitting data using COLLECT.
How schools and local authorities access and use the S2S secure data transfer system.
Find out the requirements for the registration of independent schools, also known as private schools.
Guidance to help schools set out their policies on charging for school activities and visits.
Guidance to help schools and colleges manage their security effectively so they can meet their obligations.
Request a material change to an independent school (also known as a private school) registered with the Department for Education.
Suggested privacy notices for schools and local authorities to issue to staff, parents and pupils about the collection of data.
Building Bulletin 93 (BB93) explains minimum performance standards for the acoustics of school buildings.
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 and forms for academy trust chairs of trustees to apply for a suitability check, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the constitution of governing bodies of all local-authority-maintained schools.
Non-statutory guidance and case studies for schools in England wanting to increase the length of their school week, including those delivering below the minimum 32.5 hours.
Guidance for managing staff and employment issues.
How schools can prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day.
Explains the role of schools and academy trusts in supporting parents to access wraparound childcare.
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