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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. Health and safety for school children

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

  2. Illness and your child's education

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

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Guidance and regulation

  1. What parents and carers need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  2. Supporting children and young people with SEND as schools and colleges prepare for wider opening
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  3. Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on isolation for residential educational settings
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education and Public Health England
  4. Supporting vulnerable children and young people during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  5. Supporting pupils with medical conditions at school
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
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News and communications

Press release

PE and Sport Premium for schools confirmed

Department for Education

  1. Voucher scheme launches for schools providing free school meals
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
  2. First 'State of the Nation' report marks World Mental Health Day
    • Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
    • Press release
  3. National mental health programme between schools and NHS
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
  4. New programme to protect children at risk of exploitation
    • Department for Education
    • News story
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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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