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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
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, Learner Support.
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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.
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Advertise apprenticeships and manage applications using the apprenticeship service.
Use this service to apply for a teacher training course.
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
How to find a teacher training course for primary, secondary and further eduction, including qualifications you'll need.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
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.
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Check if your council offers free early education and childcare.
Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
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
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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