Pupil wellbeing, behaviour and attendance

Safeguarding pupils. First aid, bullying, exclusions, alternative provision and pupil referral units.

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Services

1. School term and holiday dates

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

2. School leaving age

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

3. School attendance and absence

   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

4. Bullying at school

   Bullying at school and the law - what your school and the police must do about bullying and how you should report it

5. School discipline and exclusions

   Schools can punish (discipline) pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs

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Guidance and regulation

1. Keeping children safe in education
   • Statutory guidance
   • 1 October 2019
   • Department for Education
2. Working together to safeguard children
   • Statutory guidance
   • 21 February 2019
   • Department for Education
3. School attendance: guidance for schools
   • Guidance
   • 18 July 2019
   • Department for Education
4. Supporting pupils with medical conditions at school
   • Statutory guidance
   • 16 August 2017
   • Department for Education
5. School exclusion
   • Statutory guidance
   • 19 July 2017
   • Department for Education

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News and communications

12 September 2019 — Authored article

HMCI commentary: managing behaviour research

Ofsted

1. Education Secretary calls for children to spend summer outdoors
   • 19 July 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Press release
2. National mental health programme between schools and NHS
   • 12 July 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Press release
3. Teachers say parents need help to resist off-rolling pressure
   • 10 May 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Press release
4. New programme to protect children at risk of exploitation
   • 9 May 2019
   • Department for Education
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education
   • 16 September 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Research
2. Permanent and fixed period exclusions in England 2017 to 2018
   • 29 August 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
3. Understanding child and adolescent wellbeing: a system map
   • 12 July 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Research
4. Multiple disadvantage and KS4 attainment: evidence from LSYPE2
   • 16 June 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Research
5. Post-16 aspirations and outcomes: comparison of the LSYPE cohorts
   • 30 May 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Restraint in mainstream settings and alternative provision
   • 27 June 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 17 October 2019
2. School exclusions review: call for evidence
   • 11 June 2019
   • Department for Education and Race Disparity Unit
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 06 May 2018
3. Character and resilience: call for evidence
   • 27 May 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Closed consultation
   • Date closed 05 July 2019
4. Children not in school
   • 2 April 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Closed consultation
   • Date closed 25 June 2019
5. Period products scheme: impact assessment
   • 14 June 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Responses to our research into knife crime
   • 16 September 2019
   • Ofsted
   • Foi release
2. Bullying in England: April 2013 to March 2018
   • 12 November 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. Schools, pupils and their characteristics: 2002 to 2009 data
   • 23 August 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
4. Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status
   • 15 March 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. Safeguarding children and young people: memorandum of understanding between Ofsted and DfE
   • 23 November 2016
   • Department for Education and Ofsted
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Government Equalities Office
3. Department of Health & Social Care
4. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
5. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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1. Public Health England
2. Department for Work & Pensions
3. Home Office
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Cabinet Office
6. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
7. Ministry of Defence
8. Ministry of Justice
9. Race Disparity Unit
10. Teaching Regulation Agency

1. Ofsted
2. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
3. UK Council for Internet Safety

Explore sub-topics

1. Alternative provision and pupil referral units
2. Health, safety and wellbeing in schools
3. Safeguarding pupils
4. School attendance and absence
5. School bullying
6. School discipline and exclusions