Compliance

Find the latest statutory guidance and understand how it affects your school, from updates to key DfE documents to brand-new legislation

Thursday

19th Dec 2024

Why data is key to school and trust estates management
An estates manager for a large trust explains how gathering comprehensive information on its school buildings has enabled her trust to properly plan maintenance and find cost savings
Classroom window broken graphs

Wednesday

11th Dec 2024

Investigation into suspected illegal collusion on school repair bids
The Competition and Markets Authority says it has reason to suspect some companies colluded to ‘rig bids’ for the Condition Improvement Fund
Investigation into suspected illegal collusion on school repair bids
Children’s privacy: The data watchdog warning schools need to hear
A warning from the Information Commissioner’s Office over the use of technology such as AI and biometrics should not go unheeded by schools, says this lawyer
Children’s privacy: The data watchdog warning schools need to hear

Thursday

5th Dec 2024

Tough conditions forced ‘poorly informed’ cutbacks on school estate
DfE capital advisers found that smaller trusts and SATs, in particular, often did not have the funds to employ dedicated estates specialists
Market conditions forced ‘poorly informed’ cutbacks on school estate

Tuesday

19th Nov 2024

How cold can your classroom get - legally?
With temperatures across the UK starting to dip, we look at how cold a school classroom can get before it becomes legally uninhabitable
How cold can your classroom get - legally?

Monday

30th Sep 2024

It’s time for education to embrace the power of OpEx
A big prize is waiting for schools and trusts that follow the operational excellence approach, says Institute of School Business Leadership chief Stephen Morales
It’s time for education to embrace the power of OpEx

Thursday

8th Aug 2024

KCSIE 2024: Key safeguarding changes schools need to know
This year’s update to official safeguarding guidance includes only minor changes in language. Here we outline the key updates
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Wednesday

31st Jul 2024

Concern as blame for unsafe buildings ‘shifts’ towards trusts
Academy trusts that fail to keep their school estate safe could be hit with a Notice to Improve, despite trust leaders warning that they don’t have funding for repair works
school buildings

Monday

22nd Jul 2024

Boosting teacher watchdog powers should protect more children
A lawyer explains why new proposals to widen the Teaching Regulation Agency’s powers make “good sense” to help close gaps in its current remit
Sweep under rug

Monday

15th Jul 2024

School uniform costs: How things could change under Labour
A lawyer outlines why a small line in the Labour manifesto could have big implications for school uniform costs – and could arrive at any moment
School uniform

Thursday

27th Jun 2024

We must reinforce the role of civic leadership in education
Gary Wilkie, CEO of Learning in Harmony Trust, says the Nolan Principles of Public Life provide the bedrock for ethical leadership, whatever the challenges schools face
We must reinforce the role of civic leadership in education

Wednesday

19th Jun 2024

DfE ‘robs’ schools of £1.9bn for crumbling buildings, say unions
School Cuts coalition calculates schools could have an extra £36,000 each on average if the DfE distributed unspent capital funds
DfE ‘robs’ schools of £1.9bn for crumbling schools