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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. 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
    • Department for Education
  2. Working together to safeguard children
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  3. Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills
    • Guidance
    • Ofsted
  4. Child abuse concerns: guide for practitioners
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  5. School attendance: guidance for schools
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
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News and communications

News story

Funding boost to help pupils affected by domestic abuse

Home Office

  1. Children and Families Minister speaks at safeguarding conference
    • Department for Education
    • Speech
  2. Projects to improve education for children with additional needs
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  3. New relationships and health education in schools
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
  4. Schools not ‘silver bullet’ to tackling childhood obesity
    • Ofsted
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2017 and spring 2018
    • Department for Education
    • National statistics
  2. Investigative research into alternative provision
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  3. Alternative provision market analysis
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  4. Understanding KS4 attainment and progress: evidence from LSYPE2
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  5. Mental health and wellbeing provision in schools
    • Department for Education
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions
    • Department for Education
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 22 February 2018
  2. School exclusions review: call for evidence
    • Department for Education
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 06 May 2018
  3. Alternative provision: response to the select committee report
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  4. School exclusions review: terms of reference
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  5. Alternative provision: vision and reform
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
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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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Explore these 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