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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 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.
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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
Guidance and regulation
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Pupils and their parents or carers: omnibus survey
- International early learning and child wellbeing
- Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2016 to 2017
- Obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools
- Pupil absence in schools in England: 2016 to 2017
Policy and engagement
Transparency
- Schools, pupils and their characteristics: 2002 to 2009 data
- Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status
- Safeguarding children and young people: memorandum of understanding between Ofsted and DfE
- Powers of entry: Department for Education report
- Estimates of bullying of year 9 pupils in England