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Hard Governance Federations

Do you have a question about ‘Hard Governance Federation?’ Read the revised guide and FAQs. 

The Guide to Establishing a Hard Governance Federation was developed  in drawing upon the input from the Roadshows in 2005, we also added some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Hard Governance Federations. 

For the Guide to Establishing a Hard Governance Federation, please click here

For the FAQs, please click here.

The guide is accompanied the Step by Step Chart to Establishing a Hard Governance Federation. To access this, please click here.    

News and Events

Please see this section of our site for details of current and past developments / events. If you missed  or just want to see the Federation Roadshow presentations again, you will find them here. To access, please click here

DCSF pilot federations

For details of the DCSF Pilot federations and the current evaluation, please click here.  

Directory of federations

For our Directory of  the many different federatiions that have formed as a result of the provisions laid out in the Education Act 2002, please click here

If you have formed a federation that is not listed on our Directory, or your details have changed since we were last updated, please get in touch using the Contact Us page to let us know. 

Case Studies

To see case studies from the DCSF pilot federations, please click here.  

What are Federations?

To view our section on what Federation means, please click here

You may also wish to download the 'Practitioner Guide to Federations' developed by practitioners themselves. To view it, please click here.

To see what's happening nationwide along with examples of best practice, please visit the Innovation Unit website at
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Benefits

To see how forming a federation could benefit you please click here

Conditions for Success

For information on what makes for a successful Federation, please click here.

Transforming Secondary Education

For details of how Federations fit within the Transforming Secondary Education Agenda click here.

Federations Regulations

Different regulations apply depending on the type of Federation so hard federations and collaborations (also called soft governance federations) are each subject there own specific regulations. New regulations for hard federations came into effect from 25th May 2007. Similarly, regulations allowing maintained schools to collaborate with FE colleges were also introduced on 25th May 2007. 

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FAQs

For frequently asked questions (FAQs) click here

Contact us & Links

For details of how to contact us and links to other useful websites click here