Writing guide

We want our work to be easy to understand and read for a wide audience, including education professionals, government officials, parents and carers and the media. We are accountable to our stakeholders and so we need to make sure that our publications are clear and unambiguous.

This guide aims to help writers and editors to be consistent through a shared house style. Writers and editors should follow the guidance even where they have a different personal view about a preferred style from that set out here.

There is a separate Welsh writing guide which considers the different issues that arise when writing in Welsh. It is not a translation of this English guide.