School governance

Guidance and services

• School complaints procedures: guidance
• Learning continuity guidance
• Educational visits and outdoor learning
• Handling allegations of abuse against teachers and staff
• Parents and parental responsibility: guidance for schools
• School prospectuses: guidance for headteachers and governing bodies
• School toilets: guidance
• Partnership agreements: guidance for local authorities and schools
• Whistleblowing in schools: guidance
• Relations between schools and local authorities: code of practice
• Schools causing concern: statutory guidance for schools and local authorities
• Parent meetings: guidance for governing bodies

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

• Use of surplus school accommodation: current practice
  Report
• School governing bodies review: reference group 2: 25 March 2026
  Meeting
  School governing bodies in Wales reference group
• School governing bodies review: reference group 1: 21 January 2026
  Meeting
  School governing bodies in Wales reference group
• The Maintained Schools (Amendment of paragraph 7 of Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
• Modification of section 3 of the Education Act 1996 (Wales) Notice 2020
  Legislation
• Modification of section 3 of the Education Act 1996 (Wales) Notice 2021
  Legislation
• Review of school governing bodies in Wales: reference group membership
  Policy and strategy
  School governing bodies in Wales reference group