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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. Supporting pupils with medical conditions at school
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  2. Mental health and behaviour in schools
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  3. Health and safety: advice for schools
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  4. Healthy schools rating scheme
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  5. First aid in schools
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
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News and communications

Press release

National mental health programme between schools and NHS

Department for Education

  1. New programme to protect children at risk of exploitation
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  2. Nadhim Zahawi's speech at the Children's Future Food Inquiry
    • Department for Education
    • Speech
  3. Free sanitary products in all primary schools
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
  4. HMCI commentary on knife crime
    • Ofsted
    • Authored article
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Research and statistics

  1. Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education
    • Ofsted
    • Research
  2. Educational psychologist workforce research
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  3. Mental health and wellbeing provision in schools
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  4. International early learning and child wellbeing
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  5. Obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools
    • Ofsted
    • 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. Responses to our research into knife crime
    • Ofsted
    • Foi release
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Organisations

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