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If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare if you're working, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.
Register your profile, search vacancies and apply for an apprenticeship - you must be 16 or over
Find out if you're eligible for free childcare for 2 to 4 year olds if you live in England - 2 year olds can get 15 hours per week, 3 to 4 year olds 30 hours.
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, tax credits, Learner Support.
How to apply for free childcare if you're working.
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Advertise apprenticeships and manage applications using the apprenticeship service.
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Check what help you might be able to get with childcare schemes like tax credits, Tax-Free Childcare, childcare vouchers and free childcare or education for 2 to 4-year-olds.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
Use this service to apply for a teacher training course.
How to apply and get a code for free childcare for your child aged 9 months to 4-years old if you’re working.
Check if your council offers free early education and childcare
Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
Request a replacement exam certificate or a certified statement of results if you've lost your original - check the list of old exam boards if your board no longer exists
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
The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
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