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Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
Guidance for schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities on maintaining high levels of school attendance, including roles and responsibilities.
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Guidance on the suspension and permanent exclusion of pupils from local-authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units.
Statutory guidance about the support that pupils with medical conditions should receive at school.
How school staff can develop a behaviour policy.
Statutory guidance for local authorities and advice for other groups on helping children who are missing education get back into it.
Apply for a grant to train a senior mental health lead to develop your school or college's approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Statutory guidance for local authorities, as well as headteachers and governing bodies of settings providing alternative provision.
Summary of responsibilities where a mental health issue is affecting attendance and examples of effective practice.
Support for school breakfast club provision.
The information that schools must provide the Department for Education (DfE).
Guidance to help practitioners identify the signs of child abuse and neglect and understand what action to take.
Find out how to report any concerns you have about a learner who you think may be susceptible to radicalisation into terrorism.
Support for those working in education settings with safeguarding responsibilities.
Guidance on the 8 principles of a whole school or college approach to promoting mental health and wellbeing.
Guidance about the use of physical restraint in schools for governing bodies, headteachers and school staff.
How schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour.
Guidance explaining the powers schools have to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.
Guidance for schools on preventing and responding to bullying.
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