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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
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
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
Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council
Advertise apprenticeships and manage applications using the apprenticeship service.
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
Bursaries of up to £1,200 for students in further education, training or unpaid apprenticeships - what’s available, eligibility and how to apply
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.
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
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.
Check if your council offers free early education and childcare.
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
How you can train to drive a heavy goods vehicle (HGV): Skills Bootcamps, apprenticeships, vocational courses and driving schools.
Postgraduate funding - find grants, loans, studentships and scholarships.
Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
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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