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Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
If you live in England contact your local council to find: state-funded…
All schools have admission criteria to decide which children get places.…
Most children start reception full-time in September after their fourth…
Follow your local council’s application process to: apply for a primary…
If your child does not have a place, contact your local council for…
You’ll be sent a letter with the decision about your child’s school. If…
You can complain about the way the appeal was carried out, but you can not…
Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected
Search for a personalised number plate registration and buy it from DVLA online or at auction
How to request and manage school-led initial teacher training (ITT) places for School Direct.
Includes collecting large waste items, garden waste and reporting problems
Contact your local council to find a registered childminder - Family Information Service, early years education, childcare and family support in your area
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Judge Tayler on 18 January 2023.
Arrange for the collection of garden waste by your council
How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
If you get help from social services, direct payments let you choose and buy the services you need yourself, instead of getting them from your council
Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council
Find out if your council collects recycling, how to recycle household waste such as mobile phones, computers, packaging and green waste
Find out if your child is eligible for help with the cost of home to school transport
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
What to do if you're asked to do jury service - taking time off work, delaying jury service, claiming expenses. Includes information from the withdrawn 5222, 5222A and Juror Charter guidance.
Arrange for a collection of clinical waste - for items like used syringes, drugs, pharmaceuticals and surgical waste
Product recall for Skechers Junior Effie Stripe Joggers Black sold via MandM Direct presenting a high risk of entrapment as the functional draw cord measures longer than the permissible limit of 20cm.
The steps you must take when someone dies - register a death, report a death with Tell Us Once, coroners, funerals and death abroad.
Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation
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