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Schools and education

Sending a child to school

• Types of school
• The national curriculum
• Educating your child at home
• Home education: get information from your council
• Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
• School admissions
• Apply for a primary school place
• Apply for a secondary school place
• School term and holiday dates
• School attendance and absence
• School uniform
• Find safe walking or cycling routes to your child's school
• Unpaid parental leave

Financial support when your child is at school

• Help with home to school transport
• Free school transport
• Get help with school uniform costs
• Apply for school transport for a child with special educational needs and disabilities
• Apply for free school meals

Childcare for school-age children

• Childcare out of school hours
• Find before and after school and holiday clubs

Dealing with your child's school

• Appeal an exam result
• Bullying at school
• Health and safety for school children
• School closures
• School discipline and exclusions
• Illness and your child's education
• Complain about a school or childminder

Childcare and parenting

• Pregnancy and birth

  Working, time off and financial support when you have a baby, registering a birth

• Fostering, adoption and surrogacy

  Fostering or adopting a child, including from abroad, and being a surrogate mother

• Financial help if you have children

  Includes help when having a baby or adopting, child benefit and tax credits, support for childcare

• Childcare

  Finding childcare, financial support for childcare and childcare for school-age children

• Schools and education

  Sending a child to school, financial support, dealing with the school

• Divorce, separation and legal issues

  Child maintenance and disagreements about parentage

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