ParentsCentre - helping you to help your child
Information and support for parents on how to help with your child's learning, including advice on choosing a school and finding childcare.
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Current features
| Parents invited to tell their local schools what is needed in their area Children’s Minister Beverley Hughes today called on parents across the country to demand more out of hours activities at their local schools. |
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| 'Your Teen and Bullying' webchat On 17 November 2008 agony aunt, journalist and parenting expert Suzie Hayman participated in an online Q&A session about dealing with bullying. |
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| From Bump to Breastfeeding A new, free DVD has been launched to help all pregnant women across the UK with information and advice about breastfeeding. |
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| School report cards announced; and the end of tests for 14 year olds Schools Secretary Ed Balls announced today that the government plans to introduce a new school report card, and that he was ending schools’ requirement to run national tests for 14 year olds with immediate effect. |
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| Handling parents' complaints - consultation The Department for Children, Schools and Families is looking for input from parents on a new way of handling school complaints. |
Schools finder
An improved search tool for finding and researching schools, childcare and nurseries has been launched.
The new service - which now also provides Ofsted reports, maps and achievement tables - will soon be fully available on ParentsCentre. In the meantime, you can find it on the Parents section of Directgov. As this is an external website, the link below will open in a new window which you will need to close to return to ParentsCentre.
Search for schools, childcare and nurseries
