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Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
If you live in England contact your local council to find: state-funded…
All schools have admission criteria to decide which children get places.…
Most children start reception full-time in September after their fourth…
Follow your local council’s application process to: apply for a primary…
If your child does not have a place, contact your local council for…
You’ll be sent a letter with the decision about your child’s school. If…
You can complain about the way the appeal was carried out, but you can not…
Find out the basic rules of VAT, how they apply to clubs and associations, and how to treat VAT on subscriptions and other payments.
How to object to admission arrangements and how admission authorities can apply for an in-year variation or appeal against a direction to admit a child.
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Information about academy admissions and the role of the Department for Education (DfE).
Find out if relief is available for goods using Temporary Admission and if your goods require you to be established inside or outside the UK.
Apply for Temporary Admission to import goods to the UK, or move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and use them temporarily before re-exporting them.
Use Temporary Admission to pay no duty on goods you temporarily import from outside the UK and then re-export.
Find out which admission charges to cultural exhibitions and events are exempt from VAT.
Information that schools maintained by a local authority must or should publish on their website.
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