A to Z Glossary
A collection of terms commonly used across the SDD service lines.
Mission patches
Our mission patches, designed by the teams to commemorate key achievements in the design and build of our services.
Concerns Casework
An internal service for AMSD caseworkers to manage trusts and academies with financial, governance, and safeguarding concerns.
Manage an academy conversion
An internal product for DfE colleagues to manage applications from schools applying to become academies.
Manage an academy transfer
An internal service to help DfE delivery leads to Manage an academy transfer from one trust to an other.
- Academy transfers prototype
- Variants
- Choosing
- Project
- Set transfer dates
- Benefits and risks
- Designing a meaningful way to identify each project
Make changes to an academy
A service to help trusts understand what changes they need to make an application for, and for SDD Delivery Officers to manage those applications.
Apply to become an academy
An external application form hosted on GOV.UK for schools applying to become an academy.
- Accessibility and general improvements intro
- Accessibility issue 07 - Missing notifications
- Meaningful page titles
- Accessibility issue 08 - Duplicate links
- Accessibility issue 11 - Upload component
- UI improvement - Add component to request feedback
Post advisory board
An internal service helping DfE Delivery Officers convert a school to an academy, transfer an academy from one Trust to another, or make a change to an academy after the proposal has been approved by the Regional Director.