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Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
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.
School closures happen because of an emergency like severe weather - check whether your child's school is closed on your local council website.
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
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Plan a journey so your child can get safely to and from school
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