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Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
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
Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
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
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
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
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
School closures happen because of an emergency like severe weather - check whether your child's school is closed on your local council website.
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
Search for Ofsted inspection reports for childminders and childcare providers, schools, colleges, further education providers, children and families services
Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council
Find out if your child is eligible for help with the cost of home to school transport
Free transport from your local council - eligibility, rules for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), how to apply
Your responsibilities with your local council if you want to educate your child at home - sometimes called home schooling
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
What happens if your child cannot go to school for health reasons - responsibilities of the local council and school and how medical needs are handled at school
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