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
| Teachers TV Extended Services Week Between 5 and 11 May Teachers TV is showing a range of programmes focusing on extended services provided by schools. |
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| New guide to school admissions Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls has announced the publication of a step-by-step guide for parents to the school admission and appeals system. |
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| Consultation - have your say on new plans for school admissions The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is currently consulting on draft regulations to extend the period in which objections can be made to the Schools Adjudicator about schools’ admission arrangements. |
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| School place decisions If your child was not offered a place at the school you wanted, you can appeal to an independent panel about the decision. |
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| 'Children's Plan' launched Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls has announced the launch of the 'Children’s Plan’ – a ten-year strategy to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. |
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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
