Pupil wellbeing, behaviour and attendance
Safeguarding pupils. First aid, bullying, exclusions, alternative provision and pupil referral units.
Services
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School term and holiday dates
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
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School leaving age
The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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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
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School closures
School closures happen because of an emergency like severe weather - check whether your child's school is closed on your local council website.
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School uniform
What happens if your child doesn’t wear their school uniform, what to do if you think your child's being discriminated against or you think the uniform should change.
Guidance and regulation
- What parents and carers need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges during COVID-19
- Keeping children safe in education
- Asymptomatic testing: secondary schools and colleges
- Working together to safeguard children
- School attendance: guidance for schools
News and communications
- Disapplication notice: school attendance legislation changes
- Over three quarters of secondary schools order free period products
- Young Food Ambassadors meet with Children’s Minister
- Children's Minister speaks during Anti-Bullying Week
- Effect of pandemic on children's wellbeing revealed in new report
Research and statistics
- Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 25 February 2021
- Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 18 February 2021
- Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 11 February 2021
- Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 4 February 2021
- Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 28 January 2021
Policy papers and consultations
- Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions 2021
- Restraint in mainstream settings and alternative provision
- School exclusions review: call for evidence
- Children in need and looked after children statistics: proposed changes
- Period products scheme: impact assessment
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- NELI (Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme)
- Period products scheme: management information
- Early adopters of relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education
- Responses to our research into knife crime
- Bullying in England: April 2013 to March 2018