Compliance
Find the latest statutory guidance and understand how it affects your school, from updates to key DfE documents to brand-new legislation
Monday
6th Sep 2021
Covid: School attendance fines ‘could be unlawful’
Schools to be asked to help protect medically vulnerable families as government faces legal challenge over attendance fines
Covid: 2 in 5 pupils did not meet learning time target
Self-isolating pupils also experienced significant dip in remote learning support in 2020 autumn term, research warns
Thursday
26th Aug 2021
Government moves to ‘embed anti-racism’ in schools
Campaigners have previously argued that online resources are not enough and that anti-racist education should be mandatory
Remote lessons: Schools hit with ‘unhelpful’ legal duty
School leaders attack ‘unnecessary’ DfE legal direction to educate self-isolating pupils from September
Wednesday
25th Aug 2021
DfE hires ‘attendance advisers’ to cut school absence
£500-a-day advisers to tackle ‘new attendance challenges’ as Covid ‘becomes a virus that we learn to live with’
Upskirting set to be ‘relevant offence’ in teacher bans
Revenge porn and stalking also added to draft list of offences that can lead to teachers being struck off