Education and childcare: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• Schools: coronavirus guidance
  Changes to learning and teaching in schools.
• Operational guidance for schools and settings
  How schools and other providers can make their sites safe for staff and learners.
• Guidance on learning in schools and settings: coronavirus
  This guidance provides advice on learning and teaching that schools and settings may wish to provide.
• Guidance for supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged learners
  This guidance provides advice and sets expectations relating to support for vulnerable and disadvantaged learners for a range of scenarios.
• Coronavirus: travel guidance for education settings and students
  Guidance for students and staff in the education sector planning to travel in the UK or overseas, and for those who are already overseas.
• Find out about free school meals during the coronavirus outbreak
  Check how you can continue to get free school meals during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Assessment arrangements: summer term 2021
  Guidance for schools and settings on learner assessment for the summer term 2021 including key considerations to support learner progression and supporting case studies. This relates to normal assessment practice not the arrangements being made for general qualifications this year.
• Examination and assessment guidance: 2020 to 2021
  Information on examinations and assessments, including A levels, during the coronavirus pandemic.
• School admission appeals: coronavirus (COVID-19)
  How to manage temporary changes to the schools admission appeals process.
• Revised guidance for schools in Wales: supporting children eligible for free school meals
  How schools can continue to provide food for children who receive free school meals.
• Accessing school and community-based counselling: coronavirus
  How children and young people can access remote and telephone counselling during the pandemic.
• Information for school governing bodies: coronavirus
  How governing bodies will operate while schools are closed during the pandemic.
• Education safeguarding guidance: coronavirus
  Safeguarding resources for staff and schools.
• School staff and their employment: coronavirus
  Information about school staff and their employment during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Stay Safe. Stay Learning: continuity of learning
  Plans and actions for learners to stay safe, stay learning.
• Further education: coronavirus
  Changes to learning, exams, and attending schools and colleges during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Registering temporary pupils: coronavirus
  Advice for schools and local authorities about registering pupils at temporary schools and hubs.
• Changes to school session times: coronavirus
  Advice for schools and local authorities on changing school session times.
• Changes to the School Organisation Code: coronavirus
  Advice for schools and local authorities about changes to the School Organisation Code.
• COVID-19 workforce risk assessment tool: guidance
  COVID-19 workforce risk assessment tool guidance for managers and staff.
• School performance reporting arrangements: important update
  Update on changes to school performance reporting arrangements, due to the impact of coronavirus on schools.
• Free school meal costs for self-isolating or shielding learners
  Guidance about local authority costs for free school meals when learners are self-isolating or shielding.
• Changes to the number of school sessions 2020 to 2021: coronavirus
  Advice for schools and local authorities on required sessions in 2020 to 2021.
• Home testing kits guidance: schools and further education providers
  Guidance to support schools, settings and further education providers in offering home test kits.
• Guidance for independent boarding and residential special schools in Wales: coronavirus
  Guidance for independent schools in Wales with boarding or residential provision.
• Keeping learners safe in education
  Information and supporting guidance to help schools and other providers to keep learners safe.
• Coronavirus asymptomatic testing in school, further education and childcare settings
  Guidance on coronavirus asymptomatic testing in schools and colleges.
• Expectations of remote learning for pupils in exam years
  Guidance about expectations of remote learning for pupils in exam years.
• Consultation on school organisation proposals during the coronavirus pandemic
  Non-statutory guidance to assist proposers to undertake consultations whilst restrictions are in place.
• Asymptomatic testing: education and childcare settings
  Guidance for education and childcare settings for twice weekly testing at home.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The decision framework for the next phase of education and childcare
  Policy and strategy
  How we are changing the way that schools, further education and childcare providers work during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Device and connectivity update for digitally excluded learners: coronavirus
  Policy and strategy
  Update on technology provision for digitally excluded learners in maintained schools in Wales to support remote education during the coronavirus outbreak.
• The Curriculum Requirements (Amendment of paragraph 7(5) of Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 to enable the Welsh Ministers to make a notice to temporarily dis-apply certain curriculum requirements and their associated assessment arrangements.
• Notice to disapply curriculum requirements
  Legislation
  Temporarily removes the requirement for schools and funded nurseries to provide the basic curriculum and associated assessment arrangements.
• Notices disapplying changing school session time requirements
  Legislation
  Temporarily removes the requirement for governing bodies and local authorities to comply with procedures for changing school session times.
• The Maintained Schools (Amendment of paragraph 7 of Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 to enable the Welsh Ministers to make a notice to temporarily dis-apply the required procedures in changing school session times and relating to consultation on school organisation proposals.
• Modification of School Organisation Code (Wales) Notice 2020
  Legislation
  Temporarily modifies consultation requirements under the School Organisation Code.
• Modification of section 3 of the Education Act 1996 (Wales) Notice 2020
  Legislation
  Temporarily amends the definition of a pupil.
• Provision of education in response to COVID-19: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  We assessed the impact of the initial policy decisions taken in response to COVID-19 from early March 2020 to mid-June 2020.
• Increasing operations in schools and settings in response to COVID-19: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  The assessment focusses on the impacts of decisions made following lockdown measures in March 2020.
• Decisions to allow all learners to return to schools and settings in September: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  The assessment focuses on the impacts of allowing all learners to return to schools and settings in Wales from September 2020.
• Equality impact assessment: regulations governing school premises closures
  Impact assessment
  This impact assessment is about the provisions in regulations for schools to close to all but excepted learners in January 2021.