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If your school or college is one of the following types, you need to check your funding agreement to find out exactly what information you must publish on your website:

• academies, including free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges
• sixth-form colleges
• general further education (FE) colleges

There are also publishing requirements set out in the Equality Act 2010 and the Children and Families Act 2014, and related regulations. You must comply with these.

This guidance gives an overview of those requirements and the further information that the Department for Education (DfE) recommends that these schools and colleges publish on their websites. Many academy trusts are under a duty to publish much of this further information, due to clauses in their funding agreements.

School or college contact details

Your website should include the:

• name of your school or college
• postal address of your school or college
• telephone number of your school or college
• name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and other members of the public
• name of the headteacher or principal
• name and contact details of the chair of the governing body (if you have one)
• name and contact details of your special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) unless youre a special academy or sixth form or FE college

If youre an academy, you should publish the website, address and telephone number of your academy trust.

Admission arrangements

Academies

Admission arrangements for all mainstream academy schools, other than academy special schools, alternative provision or stand-alone 16 to 19 institutions, must comply with the School Admissions Code and the school admission appeals code.

Academy trusts must publish the admission arrangements for their schools on their website by 15 March each year, and keep them there for the whole of the offer year. This is the school year in which offers for places are made.

The admission arrangements must explain:

• how you will consider applications for each relevant age group at your schools - this is the age group at which children are normally admitted to the school
• what parents should do if they want to apply for their child to attend one of your schools
• your arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply (if the school is a selective school)
• your over-subscription criteria, outlining how you offer places if there are more applicants than places available

You must also set out how in-year applications will be dealt with for your schools by 31 August at the latest each year.

If the academy trust will manage in-year applications for your schools, you must provide a suitable application form to enable parents to apply for an in-year place at your school. You must also provide a supplementary information form where necessary.

If the school is to be a part of the local authoritys in-year co-ordination scheme, you must provide information on where parents can find details of the relevant scheme.

You must also publish a timetable for organising and hearing admission appeals for your schools by 28 February each year.

This must:

• include a deadline for lodging appeals which allows those making an appeal at least 20 school days from the date of notification that their application was unsuccessful to prepare and lodge their written appeal
• include reasonable deadlines for:
  • those making an appeal to submit additional evidence
  • admission authorities to submit their evidence
  • the clerk to send appeal papers to the panel and parties
• ensure that those making an appeal receive at least 10 school days notice of their appeal hearing
• ensure that decision letters are sent within 5 school days of the hearing wherever possible

16 to 19 academies and colleges

If youre a 16 to 19 academy, FE college or sixth-form college, we recommend that you publish details of your admission arrangements.

You should publish this information a year before the beginning of the academic year to which arrangements apply, to help parents and students make an informed choice. We recommend that the arrangements do not change during the year. You should include details of:

• open days your college or academy is planning
• the process for applying for a place at your college or academy
• whether your college or academy gives priority to applications from pupils enrolled at particular schools

School uniforms

The department produces statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms. Schools must have regard to this guidance when developing and implementing their school uniform policy. This guidance requires schools to publish their uniform policy on their website.

The published uniform policy should be easy to understand and, where a school has a school uniform, should:

• clearly state whether an item is optional or required
• make clear if the item will only be worn at certain times of the year (for example, if its summer or winter uniform)
• make clear whether a generic item will be accepted or if a branded item is required
• make clear whether an item can only be purchased from a specific retailer or if it can be purchased more widely, including from second-hand retailers

Ofsted reports

You must publish either a copy of your schools most recent Ofsted report or a link to the report on the Ofsted website.

Test, exam and assessment results

Key stage 4 and 16 to 18 performance measures will be published by the Secretary of State for the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

For key stage 4 and 16 to 18 results, you should update your website to include the latest measures which, once published, will be based on tests, exams and assessments from the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

Alongside your key stage 4 and 16 to 18 results, you may wish to add the following sentence:

Given the uneven impact of the pandemic on school and college performance data, the government has said you should not make direct comparisons between the performance data for one school or college and another, or to data from previous years.

Key stage 2 (end of primary school) results

You do not need to publish your key stage 2 results for the academic year 2021 to 2022 on your website, as the Secretary of State will not publish this data. This is because statutory assessments returned for the first time since 2019, without adaptations, after disruption caused by the pandemic.

You should continue to display your schools most recent key stage 2 performance measures, as published by the Secretary of State, on your website. For most schools, these will be the performance measures published for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.

You should clearly mark that these performance measures are for the 2018 to 2019 academic year and are not current. For example, you could add the following sentence to your results:

The government will not publish KS2 school level data for the 2021 to 2022 academic year. They have archived data from the 2018 to 2019 academic year because they recognise that the data from that year may no longer reflect current performance.

Key stage 4 (secondary school) results

You should publish the following details from your schools most recent key stage 4 performance measures, as published by the Secretary of State. For most schools, once published, these will be the performance measures for the 2021 to 2022 academic year:

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