Statutory policies and documents for schools and trusts
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Most recent changes
The Department for Education (DfE) withdrew its guidance on Statutory Policies for Schools and Academy Trusts on 7 March 2024.
Details of statutory policies have now been incorporated into the new governance guides for maintained schools and academies. Take a look at our summary of the new governance guides.
We’ve reached out to the DfE to clarify some of the detail on the statutory policy list in the new guides, and we will update our related articles with any updates in due course. Select ‘save for later’ at the top of this page to be notified when this article has been updated.
Maintained schools
KeyDoc: list of statutory policies - maintained
All local authority (LA)-maintained schools, including maintained special schools Maintained and non-maintained nursery schools Pupil referral units (PRUs) Non-maintained special schools, because your requirements are more similar to maintained schools than to academies
- "Do we need a policy on this?": decision flowchart
- How to develop a school policy
- How to review a school policy
- Non-statutory policies and documents
- Policy review schedule: template and examples
- School policies: consulting staff, unions and parents
- Statutory policies and procedures (EYFS)
- Which policies should trusts set centrally?