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Find out what vocational or academic courses and qualifications are available at schools, colleges and sixth forms in your area
Your responsibilities with your local council if you want to educate your child at home - sometimes called home schooling
Find courses and training online with the National Careers Service and get advice on funding the costs of learning
Get in touch with the Department for Education (DfE).
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
Find the discounts and concessions that are available in your area for travel to school sixth form or college through your local council website
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Find and apply for a further or adult education course and work out what financial help you can get
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Improve skills like reading, writing, maths or Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - courses, qualifications, find a course and help
Adult Dependants' Grant for full-time students who financially support an adult - funding, how to apply, eligibility.
Travel grants for students including medical and dental students - travel costs, Erasmus placements, how to apply, eligibility, travel expenses forms.
Where to find internships and work placements.
Find and apply for a college or university course - full time, part time, post graduate, UCAS, Unistats, National Careers Service, Open University, CUKAS
Bullying at school and the law - what your school and the police must do about bullying and how you should report it
Get extra funding for your early years childcare provider so they can provide better care for your child - early years pupil premium, disability access fund
Funding and university courses for mature students - entry requirements, find courses, student finance
Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation
If your child cannot walk to school because of their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) your local council must provide transport
Learner Support - funding for students aged over 19 in further education and financial hardship
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