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Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.
When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.
Student finance calculator - get a quick estimate of what student loans, grants, bursaries and other funding you could get - for full-time, part-time and EU students
The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.
Advertise apprenticeships and manage applications using the apprenticeship service.
Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.
The home of Department for Education on GOV.UK. The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wide…
Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan.
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
Use this guide to get an estimate of our current timescales and find out when to expect an update on your undergraduate student finance application for 2023 to 2024.
Explains how to apply for a free level 3 qualification. These courses could help you improve your wage outcomes and job prospects, and gain skills that employers value.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Guidance on the special educational needs and disability (SEND) system for children and young people aged 0 to 25, from 1 September 2014.
Disabled Students' Allowance is extra money for higher education students - DSA1 forms, eligibility, how to apply, needs assessment.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
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