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Health, safety and wellbeing in schools

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Advice for schools, illness and medical conditions, emergency planning, first aid, security.

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Services

  1. Illness and your child's education

    What happens if your child can't go to school for health reasons - responsibilities of the local council and school and how medical needs are handled at school

  2. Health and safety for school children

    Schools are responsible for your child's safety while they're at school or on a school trip

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Closure of educational settings: information for parents and carers
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  2. Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on vulnerable children and young people
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education and Public Health England
  3. Coronavirus (COVID-19): implementing social distancing in education and childcare settings
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education and Public Health England
  4. Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on isolation for residential educational settings
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education and Public Health England
  5. Emergency planning and response
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Education
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News and communications

Press release

First 'State of the Nation' report marks World Mental Health Day

Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care

  1. National mental health programme between schools and NHS
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
  2. New programme to protect children at risk of exploitation
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  3. Nadhim Zahawi's speech at the Children's Future Food Inquiry
    • Department for Education
    • Speech
  4. Free sanitary products in all primary schools
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Period product scheme: the learner perspective
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  2. Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education
    • Ofsted
    • Research
  3. Educational psychologist workforce research
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  4. Mental health and wellbeing provision in schools
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  5. International early learning and child wellbeing
    • Department for Education
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Period products scheme: impact assessment
    • Department for Education
    • Impact assessment
  2. Paediatric first aid (PFA) in early years provision
    • Department for Education
    • Impact assessment
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Early adopters of relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  2. Responses to our research into knife crime
    • Ofsted
    • Foi release
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Organisations

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