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Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Every school must publish a behaviour policy. It should be available on…
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The school may search your child if they think your child has any banned…
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Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Stop and search rates for different ethnic groups in England and Wales.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
Form OS2: official search with priority by a purchaser against part of the land in a registered title or pending first registration application.
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