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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. 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.

  5. 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

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Keeping children safe in education
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  2. Working together to safeguard children
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  3. Healthy schools rating scheme
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  4. School exclusion
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  5. School attendance: guidance for 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

Research and statistics

  1. Understanding child and adolescent wellbeing: a system map
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  2. Multiple disadvantage and KS4 attainment: evidence from LSYPE2
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  3. Post-16 aspirations and outcomes: comparison of the LSYPE cohorts
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  4. Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term 2018
    • Department for Education
    • National statistics
  5. Off-rolling: exploring the issue
    • Ofsted
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

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

  1. Bullying in England: April 2013 to March 2018
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  2. Schools, pupils and their characteristics: 2002 to 2009 data
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  3. Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  4. Safeguarding children and young people: memorandum of understanding between Ofsted and DfE
    • Department for Education and Ofsted
    • Corporate report
  5. Powers of entry: Department for Education report
    • Department for Education
    • Corporate report
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Organisations

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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