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Guidance for schools, sixth-form colleges, 16 to 19 academies and further education institutions wishing to use automated biometric recognition systems.
Guidance to help school leaders and governing bodies understand their obligations and duties.
Guidance to help school building owners and maintenance staff identify building systems and prioritise maintenance and repair of their school estate.
How independent schools must collect and submit data for the school-level annual school census (SLASC).
Guidance on establishing new schools through the free school presumption route, and the qualities new school proposers must demonstrate.
How local authorities can share aggregate data on children who receive elective home education (EHE) and those children missing education (CME).
Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2023, spring 2024 and summer 2024.
Guidance for local authorities and school admission authorities on admissions for children born in the summer.
Model document to transfer contracts and staff from a school to an academy trust as part of the academy conversion process.
A guide for schools about the benefits of apprenticeships for their workforce, and how the apprenticeship levy and public sector target apply to schools.
School ventilation design tools for use with Building Bulletin 101
Updated non-statutory guidance for employers and staff who want to make arrangements for flexible working.
Information to help school governors and academy trustees analyse and understand performance data for their school
Information and forms for academy trust chairs of trustees to apply for a suitability check, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Model document to help community and church schools converting to academy status transfer their school's land to the academy trust.
How to transfer an academy from one trust to another.
Guidance on the DfE funding available to academy trusts for sponsored academy projects.
A resource to help promote, develop and sustain effective governance in your school.
Guidance explaining what facility time is and the Department for Education's expectations for schools managing facility time.
Help to implement flexible working including a toolkit of resources, webinar training and support from flexible working ambassador multi-academy trusts and schools.
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