The Department for Education’s terms and conditions for any discretionary grants that it awards to external organisations.
Statutory guidance: Schemes for financing schools
Statutory guidance for local authorities on producing and amending school financing schemes.
Guidance: Leasing for maintained schools
Information on leasing activities for maintained schools, including the international financial reporting standard (IFRS 16 leases) introduced on 1 April 2024.
Guidance: Leasing for academy trusts
Information on leasing activities for academy trusts from 1 September 2024 following the introduction of international financial reporting standard (IFRS 16 leases).
Transparency data: Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs
Information on all academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs) open in England, and those in the process of opening.
Transparency data: DfE monthly workforce management information: 2023 to 2024
Staff numbers and costs for the Department for Education (DfE) group for the financial year 2023 to 2024.
Open call for evidence: Safeguarding children in schools and colleges
We are seeking views on child safeguarding practice in schools and colleges to inform the Department for Education’s safeguarding in schools and colleges policy.
Guidance: Initial teacher training reform funding guidance
Funding available to training providers and placement schools for initial teacher training (ITT) in 2024 to 2025.
Guidance: School applications for foreign national children and children resident outside England
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Guidance: Apprenticeship funding rules
The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.


