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See our guidance on specific types of procurement for your school, including catering and cleaning services.

Join the risk protection arrangement (RPA), DfEs alternative to commercial insurance for public sector schools. Joining is easy and takes less than 5 minutes. Cover includes:

• cyber
• overseas and UK travel
• public liability
• material damage

Join or create a school business professionals network to connect and share information with your peers.

The guidance on good estate management provides advice on managing:

• school buildings
• land
• all sizes of construction projects

Register for our free webinars on using DfE approved frameworks to help your school get value for money.

To learn more about buying for schools, you can:

• join @Buying for schools on LinkedIn for regular updates about how were supporting schools to make the most of non-staff spend
• read our buying for schools blog to see what we are working on now and what we are doing next
• email schools.commercial@education.gov.uk if you have any further questions
• sign up for emails about the latest products and guidance to get great value from your schools resources
• get emails when we add or update pages on GOV.UK