Guidance
Resources and organisations for further support
Published 9 July 2026
Applies to England
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Securing the safety of school premises
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Controlling access to school premises | Controlling access to school premises helps schools understand what they should do to remove someone who is on the premises without permission |
| Meeting health and safety responsibilities and duties | Health and safety: advice for schools covers performing risk assessments to identify measures to control during school activities |
| Maintaining school security | School and college security helps schools manage security effectively and put in place sensible and proportionate policies and plans. It providing practical, non-statutory guidance and highlights relevant legislation |
| Improving behaviour | Behaviour in schools provides guidance for headteachers and school staff on developing a behaviour policy |
| Preventing and managing violent incidents | provides advice and resources |
| Online safety templates | provides a range of policy templates, including on ‘acceptable use’ |
Preventing bullying
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Preventing and responding to bullying | Preventing bullying provides guidance for headteachers, school staff, parents and carers on bullying and cyber bullying. It covers the obligations and powers schools have to tackle peer-to-peer bullying, and the principles that underpin the most effective anti-bullying strategies in schools |
| Preventing and responding to cyber bullying | helps schools understand, prevent and respond to cyber bullying |
Reporting incidents
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Reporting stalking and harassment | defines stalking and harassment, provides information on how to report it and the support that is available to victims |
| Reporting online harassment | covers how to report online harassment, malicious messaging or distribution of private sexual images without consent |
Supporting staff
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Supporting staff | Education Support is a charity that offers advice and support on |
| Workplace bullying helpline | The National Bullying Helpline can advise employees affected by |
| Supporting professionals working with children | The provides advice for schools, public bodies and industry on appropriate actions to take in regard to safeguarding and advancing positive online safety policies |
| Social media mediation | The provides signposting to, advice on, and mediation with social media platforms to resolve any online safety issues faced by school staff |
| Responding to serious events | provides resources to help educational communities deliver a comprehensive and compassionate response to traumatic events |
Online Safety
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Filtering and monitoring online content | Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges - filtering and monitoring provides guidance for schools and colleges on how to filter and monitor harmful online content |
| Preventing extremism | provides advice on safeguarding students from radicalisation and includes classroom resources and discussion points for teachers, parents and school leaders |
| Keeping children safe online | include training courses and advice to improve professional practice and keep children safe online |
Engaging parents and carers
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Setting up parental controls | provides a range of resources for parents and professionals to help set up parental controls and protect children from deepfakes |
| Engaging parents with relationships education | Engaging parents with relationships education policy provides guidance to primary headteachers |
| Engaging parents with online activity | provides support and resources for schools to help engage parents in their children’s online activity |
| Engaging parents positively | provides strategies to help engage and build trust with parents and involve them in their child’s education |
| Increasing online safety | helps parents support their children in staying safe online |
| Upskilling parents | provides a range of tools and resources to help parents and teachers understand the online resources children may use |
| Managing parental complaints | ±Ê²¹°ù±ð²Ô³Ù°ì¾±²Ô»å’s can be shared with parents |
| Preventing filming at school | explains why filming around school premises should be avoided. Parents and visitors can be directed to this resource |
Workload and wellbeing
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Workload and wellbeing service | is a service produced by school leaders for school leaders that hosts free resources, including a workload reduction toolkit and case studies |
Employment and professional conduct
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Teacher misconduct | Teacher misconduct: the prohibition of teachers explains how serious teacher misconduct is considered and when a teacher may be prohibited from teaching |
| Staffing and employment advice for schools | Staffing and employment guidance for schools provides advice for schools on managing staff and meeting employment responsibilities |
| Equality and human rights | The provides information, advice and support to individuals on issues related to equality and human rights |
| Dispute resolution | provides guidance on resolving workplace disagreements and disputes between employers and employees |
| Employment tribunal claims | Make a claim to an employment tribunal explains who can make an employment tribunal claim and the circumstances in which a claim can be made |
Complaints procedures
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| School complaints procedures for maintained schools and nurseries | School complaints procedures: guidance for maintained schools explains how maintained schools and nurseries can set up and review their complaints procedures |
| Setting up an academy complaints procedure | Setting up an academy’s complaints procedure provides guidance for academies on creating a complaints procedure that meets legal requirements |
| Regulating independent schools | Regulating independent schools explains how independent schools are regulated, including the standards they must meet and the action that can be taken where concerns are identified |
Regulation and governance
| Subject | Details |
|---|---|
| Guidance for councils on changing byelaws | Local government legislation: byelaws provides guidance for councils on making, reviewing and revoking byelaws for the good rule and governance of their area |