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Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Find an earlier practical driving test, move it to a later date, or change the test centre you take it at.
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.…
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
Visit the UK as a Standard Visitor for tourism, business, study (courses up to 6 months), medical treatment and other activities. Find out whether you need a Standard Visitor visa, or can visit without a visa.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
Use this service to complain to Ofsted about a state school, including academies and free schools.
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates: age, apprentices, previous years.
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council…
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
How to volunteer as a governor - you can help decide how a local school or college is run
Apply for a place in a nursery school for children under 5 through your local council
Bullying at school and the law - what your school and the police must do about bullying and how you should report it
Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council
Schools set school uniform policy and must make their uniform policy. You should talk to the school if you think your child is being discriminated against.
Guidance on the strategic leadership and governance of local-authority-maintained schools.…
Find out if your child is eligible for help with the cost of home to school transport
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