With such an exciting year for free schools behind us, today’s blog encourages a moment of reflection on the individual avenues to...

With safety valve interviews expected imminently, the Create: Schools team have collated a variety of questions applicants may expect to...

The next phase of the Safety Valve Wave is due to begin soon, as invites for interview are scheduled to be staggered in Spring 2024....

Our Free Schools Round Up will provide you with education headlines from the past month, featuring key updates on each of the free school...

Our monthly Free Schools Round Up will provide you with last month’s education headlines, featuring key updates on each of the free...

Our monthly Free Schools Round Up will provide you with last month’s education headlines, featuring key updates on each of the free...

This blog will examine the enormous impact a new Special free school can have on pupils and the wider community and includes an exclusive...

This blog will focus on various funding and finance aspects of the free school process. This will include a discussion on how free...

The free school financial template can seem a daunting task at first, however, it doesn't have to be. Below we have included a breakdown...

Our monthly Free Schools Round-Up will provide you with education news from the last month, featuring key updates on the individual free...

Through this blog, we will outline the vital guidance and typical considerations for the interview stage of the free school process.

Our monthly Free Schools Round Up will provide you with education news from the last month, featuring key updates on the individual free...

This week’s blog will focus on working effectively in partnerships for Alternative Provision (AP) proposers. Through the AP wave,...

As part of the DfE’s application guidance, you are expected to evidence engagement with the local community through your free school...

This week’s blog focuses on one of the most important elements of any free school application - the vision. The tips below can be applied...

As we come to the end of the summer break, applicants will be gearing up to put pen to paper and begin writing their free school...

With a couple of checkpoints already passed in the current free school waves but the majority still out in front, we thought this would...

For the first time, opening a new Alternative Provision (AP) free school has been granted its own separate wave by the Department for...

Writing your free school application can seem like a daunting process. For this reason, we have provided six top tips for writing a...

15 mainstream schools will be approved in the next free school wave and evidencing the need for the new school will be vital to ensure a...