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Links to the apply to become an academy service for mainstream schools, the application process for special schools and PRUs, and information about notifying your local authority.
Advice on what schools converting to academy status need to do to make sure they can keep using their school's land after converting.
Information and guidance about fire safety in new and existing school buildings.
Information about primary and secondary school design.
Guidance for independent schools to help them with the 2024 school-level annual school census (SLASC).
How local authorities should submit data for the annual school preference collections.
How to transfer an academy from one trust to another.
Funding to support schools facing unexpected or imminent failure to improve in areas such as leadership, governance, safeguarding, human resources and finance.
How local authorities should collect phonics screening check data from all local-authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools.
Business and technical specification for local authorities and software suppliers to prepare for the alternative provision census 2025.
This page helps you compare different FMS providers so your academy trust can choose a provider who will enable you to automate your financial returns to DfE.
A guide for schools about the benefits of apprenticeships for their workforce, and how the apprenticeship levy and public sector target apply to schools.
Practical advice for teachers, technicians and other staff who buy, store or dispose of hazardous chemicals.
Statutory guidance setting out the arrangements for the collaboration of governing bodies in maintained schools in England.
Baseline designs for a 420 place primary school with 26 place nursery.
Guidance about the regulation of schools and academies as exempt charities.
How school leaders can get support from other schools in their locality to improve a specific area of teaching or leadership.
Guidance for responsible bodies and education settings with confirmed reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in their buildings.
Guidance explaining what facility time is and the Department for Education's expectations for schools managing facility time.
Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities completing returns for the 2024 and 2025 special educational needs person level survey (SEN2).
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