School governance

Guidance and services

• Partnership agreements: guidance for local authorities and schools
  Includes advice on the regulations and what should be covered in the agreements.
  
• Educational visits and outdoor learning
  Guidance to help professionals ensure educational visits and activities are safe.
• Parent meetings: guidance for governing bodies
  The arrangements governing bodies must follow to allow parents to request meetings.
• School toilets: good practice guidance
  Advice to help schools provide good, hygienic toilet facilities for learners.
• Documents produced for schools: 2019 to 2020
  Lists all the documents, for example guidance and consultations, sent to schools for the academic year 2019 to 2020.
• Documents produced for schools: 2017 to 2018
  Lists all the documents, for example guidance and consultations, sent to schools for the academic year 2017 to 2018.
• School complaints procedures: guidance
  Guidance for governors on how to deal with complaints.
• School prospectuses: guidance for headteachers and governing bodies
  The information schools are required to publish each year.
• Schools causing concern: statutory guidance for schools and local authorities
  Guidance on the legal requirements when intervening in schools causing concern.
• Parents and parental responsibility: guidance for schools
  Explains who schools must involve in issues about a pupil’s education.
• Relations between schools and local authorities: code of practice
  Guidance on the role of local education authorities in supporting schools to raise standards.
• Handling allegations of abuse against teachers and staff
  Guidance for local authorities and education providers on what to do when allegations of abuse are made against staff.
• Learning continuity guidance
  Includes the overarching principles for learning continuity, types of disruption and roles and responsibilities.
• Whistleblowing in schools: guidance
  How to develop a policy so that school staff can raise concerns about conduct or practice in a safe and professional way.
• Brexit: no deal preparations for schools in Wales
  Guidance for schools on preparing for a no-deal Brexit.
• Emergency planning and response guidance for education and childcare settings
  How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe weather.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• School governance task and finish group: government response
  Report
  What we plan to do in response to each of the report's recommendations.
• Use of surplus school accommodation: current practice
  Report
  A report on alternative uses of unused school buildings.
• The Maintained Schools (Amendment of paragraph 7 of Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 to enable the Welsh Ministers to make a notice to temporarily dis-apply the required procedures in changing school session times and relating to consultation on school organisation proposals.
• School governance task and finish group: report
  Report
  Recommendations on how to improve the school governance framework.
• Modification of section 3 of the Education Act 1996 (Wales) Notice 2020
  Legislation
  Temporarily amends the definition of a pupil.
• The Welshpool Church in Wales Primary School (Change to School Session Times) Order 2020
  Policy and strategy
  Our response to the application made by the governing body of Welshpool Church in Wales Primary School to change school session times.
• Modification of section 3 of the Education Act 1996 (Wales) Notice 2021
  Legislation
  Temporarily amends the definition of a pupil.