Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2023 to 2024.
Handling other information rights requests
How to manage other information rights requests, including changing, deleting or restricting the processing of personal information.
Dealing with subject access requests (SARs)
A subject access request (SAR) is a type of information rights request. A SAR lets people access a copy of the personal data a school holds about them or someone they have parental responsibility for.
Data protection in schools
The policies and processes schools and multi-academy trusts need to protect personal data and respond effectively to a personal data breach.
Guidance: Initial teacher training (ITT) bursary: funding manual
A training bursary guide for schools and ITT providers.
Guidance: School Direct (salaried): funding manual
The funding manual for initial teacher training (ITT) places for schools and ITT providers.
Guidance: International relocation payments: guidance for ITT providers
Information for ITT providers and schools about international relocation payments for trainee teachers and teachers of languages and physics from outside the UK.
Guidance: Find, join or create a network for school business professionals
How business professionals working in schools can find, join or create a network of local school business professionals.
Transparency data: Department for Education major projects: accounting officer assessments
Accounting officer assessment summaries for Department for Education programmes and projects.
Independent report: Sustainability and climate change strategy: user group report
An independent assessment of progress on the Department for Education (DfE)’s strategy.


