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The education provision for service children overseas can be categorised as Defence Children Services (DCS) Schools and Settings or non MOD schools locations.
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
DCSF is now the Department for Education
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
The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) - support your child can get at school and how to apply for an education, health and care (EHC) plan
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Schools are responsible for your child's safety while they're at school or on a school trip
Set up a free school - find out what you need to do and how to increase your chance of success
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