Services

If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare if you're working, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.

Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over

How to apply for free childcare if you're working.

Find out if you're eligible for free childcare for 2 to 4 year olds if you live in England - 2 year olds can get 15 hours per week, 3 to 4 year olds 30 hours.

Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, tax credits, Learner Support.

Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website

Check what help you might be able to get with childcare schemes like tax credits, Tax-Free Childcare, childcare vouchers and free childcare or education for 2 to 4-year-olds.

Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.

You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance

Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.

Use this service to apply for a postgraduate teacher training course.

Request a replacement exam certificate or a certified statement of results if you've lost your original - check the list of old exam boards if your board no longer exists

The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests

The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.

Check if your council offers free early education and childcare

Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate

How to find a postgraduate teacher training course for primary, secondary and further eduction, including qualifications you'll need.

Postgraduate funding - find grants, loans, studentships and scholarships.

Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.