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How to Keep Up with Changing Education Laws and Regulations
- Flick Learning
- Nov 6, 2025
- 5 min read
Updated: Dec 1, 2025
Few industries face regulations as rigorous as the education sector. Entrusted with the safety of children and young people, educational institutions must navigate a web of health and safety rules, data protection standards (like GDPR), and accessibility mandates. And that’s without mentioning curriculum requirements.
Non-compliance with these changing regulations can lead to failing Ofsted and other inspectorates, getting a bad report, funding issues and reputational damage. While the government provides an annual update, it doesn’t translate this information into accessible training for your staff.
Thankfully, with the right tools and a proactive approach, compliance becomes manageable and even simple. A well-structured learning management system like flick’s helps schools ensure students are protected and compliance is completed.
In this article we'll discuss:
Understanding the Scope of Education Regulations
The scope of education regulations covers a lot of ground. The main topics include:
Student safety covers safeguarding policies, risk assessments, and emergency procedures designed to protect pupils on and off campus.
Data protection is crucial in the modern world. Regulations like GDPR secure personal information against data leaks and inappropriate sharing.
Accessibility means meeting SEND and Equality Act standards, providing fair access to students with disabilities, and other requirements.
Curriculum requirements evolve with each new government. Institutions must adhere to national or regional frameworks defining what must be taught, assessed, and recorded.
Staff Training ensures all team members are up to speed with mandatory courses and have access to career development opportunities.
While no educational institution takes these responsibilities lightly, keeping pace with shifting legislation can be daunting, especially when laws differ between regions and across public, private, or higher education settings.
Learning Management Systems (LMS) and e-learning providers centralise these training efforts, guaranteeing that your team is learning the latest information. We track changes across these categories, reviewing our course materials and ensuring we only provide the newest guidance.
Establish Reliable Information Sources
It’s not just what you teach, but it’s also about who you get your information from. In an age where misinformation spreads faster than the truth, it’s never been more important to rely on authoritative sources.
It’s always a good idea to read government updates, education boards, and compliance newsletters. Subscribing to these sources ensures you never miss an update. Flick also use independent and external subject experts to ensure that our courses are always up to date.
You can follow our socials to see how and when we evolve our courses.
Joining professional associations or following trusted legal and policy experts (in education) is another sensible option.
Leverage Technology for Compliance Tracking
Translating government regulations and documents into training courses isn’t viable for most institutions. Nor is asking your team to read the documents themselves. They’re written as guidance, not learning materials.
The solution is a learning management system. It provides a centralised location for all your learning efforts. The benefits, which save you time and money, include:
Standardised training
Tracking
Automatic follow-ups
Hitting compliance targets becomes a lot easier with an LMS. flick offers a real-time dashboard to track completion, helping to chase up team members who are falling behind. Plus, when an inspection occurs, you can simply pull a report. The compliance software simplifies recordkeeping and automatic reminders, so nothing slips through the cracks.
Learn how you and your team can meet education regulations through LMS-based training.
Invest in Ongoing Staff Training
The more skills your team has, the better trained they are, and the greater the education you offer to your students. Investing in ongoing employee training is the number one way to stay on top of education laws and regulations. It's also an opportunity for your team to evolve beyond their current role or take on new responsibilities (learning the relevant skills whenever they’ve got a free moment).
LMS systems go beyond compliance, they can contribute to year round training. Within an LMS system, you can:
Prompt teachers and administrators with mandatory training whenever they log in.
Provide role-specific compliance training tied to a user account. For example, safeguarding for teachers, data security for administrators, or special education for a teacher’s assistant.
Offer refresher courses if you feel compliance has slipped or regulations have changed.
For instance, if the regulations around safe eating in early years are updated, you can send a refresher course exclusively to the relevant team members and track when they finish it.
Build a Compliance Culture in Education Settings
Compliance isn’t just a course you do once in a while. It’s a continuous process and it’s a culture. It involves each team member taking responsibility for their learning, understanding their obligations, and holding each other to account.
You’ll want to appoint a compliance lead to oversee training and monitor metrics. They can then report their findings to regular committees, where you can discuss what’s going well and how to fix ongoing issues.
Remember, it’s all about accountability and proactive management. The aim isn’t to respond to issues as they happen; it’s to prevent them from happening in the first place.
Partner with Legal and Policy Experts
Not confident you can interpret the dense, legal language of regulations and laws? You’re not alone. Legalese is almost a foreign language.
Thankfully, you don’t have to do it alone. Consulting specialists to interpret new regulations and review your procedures is the gold standard. flick does precisely that, which is why we’re so confident in our courses and customer services. It’s backed by the experts.
Plan for Future Changes
Whatever the education laws and regulations are today, they won’t be the same tomorrow. Each year, the government’s guidance evolves based on new technologies, trends, and other factors.
This ongoing change needs to be baked into your training system.
Anticipate shifts in education policy (being proactive in your approach), create flexible policies that can adapt to new mandates, and develop an institutional culture of continuous improvement. That way, you’re never caught out; you’re always one step ahead.
Always Ahead of the Curve
Keeping up with new laws and mandates is a marathon, not a sprint. But one thing is clear: it’s not optional. Ensuring your staff are trained on the latest education laws and regulations builds confidence, reduces risks, and fosters trust among students, parents, staff, and regulators.
With flick’s regularly updated education courses, you’re never left behind. Each module is reviewed and refreshed in line with the latest government guidelines, so your training remains accurate, relevant, and inspection-ready, every single time.
Contact flick today to discuss courses, costings, and customisation.
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