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DfE letters sent to underperforming local-authority-maintained schools about poor pupil performance, governance or school safety.
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Every school must publish a behaviour policy. It should be available on…
Headteachers can exclude your child if they misbehave in or outside…
You’ll get a letter from the school telling you what to do if you disagree…
The school may search your child if they think your child has any banned…
A resource for health professionals for contacting head teachers or school governors, to arrange for catch-up MMR vaccinations.
Information for local authorities on how to request school level data and letter templates to send to schools participating in the NCMP.
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
A resource for health professionals to contact school nurses and health visitors about the 2013 MMR catch-up vaccination programme.
Information that schools maintained by a local authority must or should publish on their website.
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
Letters from the Building Safety Programme, established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe and feel safe, now and in the future.
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