Pupil wellbeing, behaviour and attendance

Safeguarding pupils. First aid, bullying, exclusions, alternative provision and pupil referral units.

Services

  • Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's 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

  • The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

  • Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs

  • Bullying at school and the law - what your school and the police must do about bullying and how you should report it

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases