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If you get Tax-Free Childcare or Free Childcare for Working Parents, sign in to confirm your details are up to date, pay money in or apply for an additional child.
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
If you live in England and work you may be able to get free childcare for a child aged 9 months to 4 years old. Check if you're eligible and how and when to apply.
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Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Advertise apprenticeships and manage applications using the apprenticeship service.
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Postgraduate funding - find grants, loans, studentships and scholarships.
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Use this service to apply for a teacher training course.
Check what help you could get with childcare through Tax-Free Childcare, Free Childcare for Working Parents and free education and childcare for 2 to 4-year-olds.
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, Early Learning for 2 year olds, childcare vouchers, Learner Support.
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.
Request a replacement exam certificate or a certified statement of results if you've lost your original - check the list of old exam boards if your board no longer exists
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
Check if your council offers free early education and childcare.
How you can train to drive a heavy goods vehicle (HGV): Skills Bootcamps, apprenticeships, vocational courses and driving schools.
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
How to find a teacher training course for primary, secondary and further eduction, including qualifications you'll need.
The law does not say an age when you can leave a child on their own, but it's an offence to leave a child alone if it puts them at risk
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