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          • Advocacy
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      • Bullying
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      • Complaints to schools
      • Direct payments
      • Direction off-site for the improvement of behaviour
      • Disability discrimination in education
      • Discipline within school
      • Discrimination in Education
      • Education for children out of school
      • Education for looked after children
      • Education of children outside of their chronological age group
      • Examinations in Summer 2021
      • Fair Access Protocol
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      • Legal Aid for educational law matters
      • Lockdown 2021 and School Attendance
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      • Consent Orders
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      • Do I need a solicitor or barrister?
      • Explaining the legality of a Child Arrangements Order
      • Family mediation
      • Hearings in the Family Court
      • Legal Aid for family law matters
      • Litigation Friends
      • Litigants in Person 
      • Parenting plans
      • Preparing for a Family Court hearing
      • Remote hearings in the family court – Covid-19
      • Scott Schedule
      • Seeking costs in court
      • The Welfare Checklist
      • The role of Cafcass
      • Type of Family Law Orders
      • Use of Recordings
      • Writing a Position Statement
      • Who’s who in Family Court
      • Witness Statements
      • Signposting List
  • How-to Guides
      • How-To Guides offer additional information not found on our regular pages. You should use these if you need more detailed advice, having first read our information pages.

        How-To Guides are a paid service. Click here for full details of the pricing structure.

      • Appealing an Education, Health & Care Plan or a Statement of Special Educational Needs
      • Bullying
      • Claiming against disability discrimination in schools
      • Complaints against children’s services
      • Complaints to schools
      • Contact
      • Declaration of parentage
      • Enforcement of an Order for contact or residence
      • Parental responsibility
      • Removal from Jurisdiction
      • Residence
      • School admission appeals
      • School exclusion
      • SEN Needs Assessments & Education, Health and Care Plans
      • Special Guardianship Order
      • Variation and discharge of an order for contact or residence
  • Information for Schools
      • The Child Law Advice Service now offers a Schools Information Service. For a small fee, this service provides school professionals with detailed information about their legal rights and duties.

        For more information, click here

        Click here for full details of the pricing structure.

      • Addressing Domestic Abuse in schools
      • Banning Parents from School Premises
      • Safeguarding children in school
      • Dealing with school complaints
      • Directing children off site to improve behaviour
      • Understanding your school’s Equality duties
      • Managing behaviour in school
      • Providing education for children out of school
      • Dealing with exclusions
      • Understanding home education
      • Looked after children in schools
      • Arranging managed moves
      • Understanding the obligations of Children’s Services
      • Dealing with Parental Responsibility disputes
      • Understanding school admissions and appeals
      • Dealing with school attendance and absence
      • Understanding school transport
      • Setting a school uniform policy
      • Providing for Special Educational Needs
      • Supporting pupils with medical conditions
      • Supporting pupils’ mental health in schools
      • Preventing and tackling bullying
  • About Us
      • Child Law Advice is provided by Coram Children's Legal Centre, the UK's leading legal children's charity, and is part of the Coram group.

        Our registered charity number is 281222

      • About Child Law Advice
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  • Home
  • Family
      • Parental disputes
          • Abduction
          • Access to information
          • Adoption (non-agency)
          • Advocacy
          • Changing a child’s surname
          • Child abuse
          • Contact
          • Consent Orders
          • Coronavirus: Separated Families and Contact
          • Domestic abuse
          • Domestic Abuse and Coronavirus
          • Family mediation
          • Legal Aid for family law matters
          • Legal aid if you have been a victim of domestic abuse
          • Legal aid if your child is at risk of abuse
          • Legal position relating to unborn children
          • Locating a child
          • Parental responsibility
          • Register and re-register a child’s birth
          • Residence
          • Special Guardianship
          • Testamentary Guardianship
          • Travel and Relocation
          • Wardship
          • Signposting List
      • Raising and caring for children & young people
          • Adoption (non-agency)
          • Family and Friends Care
          • Homelessness (16/17 year olds)
          • Local Authorities’ duties in relation to Looked After Children
          • Parental responsibility
          • Private fostering
          • Residence
          • Section 20 accommodation
          • Special Guardianship
          • Surrogacy
          • Testamentary Guardianship
          • Wardship
          • Signposting List
      • Duties of Children’s Services
          • Advocacy
          • Care orders
          • Child abuse
          • Child in need
          • Children’s services referral and assessment
          • Contact with a child in care
          • Child Protection Conference & Plan
          • Direct payments
          • Education for Looked After Children
          • Homelessness (16/17 year olds)
          • Legal position relating to unborn children
          • Local Authorities duties’ in relation to LAC
          • Locating a child
          • Police Protection & Emergency Protection
          • Public Law Care Proceedings
          • Section 20 accommodation
          • Services for children leaving care
          • Supervision orders
          • Young carers
          • Signposting List
      • Child Safeguarding
          • Advocacy
          • Bullying
          • Child abuse
          • Child employment
          • Domestic abuse
          • Home alone
          • Sexting
          • The law on smacking children
      • Relationship breakdown
          • Marriage and Civil Partnership
          • Divorce
          • Ending a Civil Partnership
          • Alternatives to ending a marriage or civil partnership
          • Signposting List
  • Education
      • Access to information
      • Banning parents from school premises
      • Bullying
      • Charging for school activities
      • Complaints to schools
      • Direct payments
      • Direction off-site for the improvement of behaviour
      • Disability discrimination in education
      • Discipline within school
      • Discrimination in Education
      • Education for children out of school
      • Education for looked after children
      • Education of children outside of their chronological age group
      • Examinations in Summer 2021
      • Fair Access Protocol
      • Home education
      • Independent schools
      • Legal Aid for educational law matters
      • Lockdown 2021 and School Attendance
      • Managed Moves
      • Mental health in schools
      • National Curriculum at Secondary School
      • Radicalisation in schools and The Prevent Duty
      • Coronavirus and Schools
      • School admissions
      • School admissions FAQ
      • School attendance and absence
      • School Meals
      • School exclusion
      • School powers to search and screen pupils
      • Special Educational Needs
      • Summer Born Admission
      • Supporting children with medical needs in schools
      • Transport
      • Types of school
      • Participation of young people in education, employment or training
      • Signposting List
  • Attending court
      • Appeals
      • A sample Child Arrangements Order
      • Complaints about a court or a judge
      • Consent Orders
      • Court Bundles
      • Court etiquette
      • Do I need a solicitor or barrister?
      • Explaining the legality of a Child Arrangements Order
      • Family mediation
      • Hearings in the Family Court
      • Legal Aid for family law matters
      • Litigation Friends
      • Litigants in Person 
      • Parenting plans
      • Preparing for a Family Court hearing
      • Remote hearings in the family court – Covid-19
      • Scott Schedule
      • Seeking costs in court
      • The Welfare Checklist
      • The role of Cafcass
      • Type of Family Law Orders
      • Use of Recordings
      • Writing a Position Statement
      • Who’s who in Family Court
      • Witness Statements
      • Signposting List
  • How-to Guides
      • How-To Guides offer additional information not found on our regular pages. You should use these if you need more detailed advice, having first read our information pages.

        How-To Guides are a paid service. Click here for full details of the pricing structure.

      • Appealing an Education, Health & Care Plan or a Statement of Special Educational Needs
      • Bullying
      • Claiming against disability discrimination in schools
      • Complaints against children’s services
      • Complaints to schools
      • Contact
      • Declaration of parentage
      • Enforcement of an Order for contact or residence
      • Parental responsibility
      • Removal from Jurisdiction
      • Residence
      • School admission appeals
      • School exclusion
      • SEN Needs Assessments & Education, Health and Care Plans
      • Special Guardianship Order
      • Variation and discharge of an order for contact or residence
  • Information for Schools
      • The Child Law Advice Service now offers a Schools Information Service. For a small fee, this service provides school professionals with detailed information about their legal rights and duties.

        For more information, click here

        Click here for full details of the pricing structure.

      • Addressing Domestic Abuse in schools
      • Banning Parents from School Premises
      • Safeguarding children in school
      • Dealing with school complaints
      • Directing children off site to improve behaviour
      • Understanding your school’s Equality duties
      • Managing behaviour in school
      • Providing education for children out of school
      • Dealing with exclusions
      • Understanding home education
      • Looked after children in schools
      • Arranging managed moves
      • Understanding the obligations of Children’s Services
      • Dealing with Parental Responsibility disputes
      • Understanding school admissions and appeals
      • Dealing with school attendance and absence
      • Understanding school transport
      • Setting a school uniform policy
      • Providing for Special Educational Needs
      • Supporting pupils with medical conditions
      • Supporting pupils’ mental health in schools
      • Preventing and tackling bullying
  • About Us
      • Child Law Advice is provided by Coram Children's Legal Centre, the UK's leading legal children's charity, and is part of the Coram group.

        Our registered charity number is 281222

      • About Child Law Advice
      • About Coram
      • Donate to Child Law Advice
      • Contact us
      • Booking a call back
      • Volunteer
      • Work for us
      • Feedback
      • Broken links
      • Signposting List
      • Terms and conditions
      • Sitemap
      • Glossary
  • Log In
    • Register
CLAS logo
    • Home
    • Family
      • Parental disputes
        • Abduction
        • Access to information
        • Adoption (non-agency)
        • Advocacy
        • Changing a child’s surname
        • Child abuse
        • Consent Orders
        • Contact
        • Domestic abuse
        • Family mediation
        • Legal Aid for family law matters
        • Legal aid if your child is at risk of abuse
        • Legal aid if you have been a victim of domestic abuse or violence
        • Legal position relating to unborn children
        • Locating a child
        • Parental responsibility
        • Register and re-register a child’s birth
        • Residence
        • Special Guardianship
        • Testamentary Guardianship
        • The law on smacking children
        • Travel and Relocation
        • Wardship
        • Signposting List
      • Raising and caring for young people
        • Family and Friends Care
        • Homelessness (16/17 year olds)
        • Locating a child
        • Local Authorities’ duties in relation to Looked After Children
        • Parental responsibility
        • Private fostering
        • Residence
        • Section 20 accommodation
        • Special Guardianship
        • Testamentary Guardianship
        • Wardship
      • Duties of Children’s Services
        • Advocacy
        • Care orders
        • Child abuse
        • Child in need
        • Child Protection Conference & Plan
        • Children’s services referral and assessment
        • Contact with a child in care
        • Domestic abuse
        • Direct payments
        • Education for looked after children
        • Home alone
        • Homelessness (16/17 year olds)
        • Legal position relating to unborn children
        • Local Authorities’ duties in relation to Looked After Children
        • Locating a child
        • Police powers of protection & Emergency protection orders
        • Public Law Care Proceedings
        • Section 20 accommodation
        • Services for children leaving care
        • Supervision orders
        • Young carers
      • Child safeguarding
        • Advocacy
        • Bullying
        • Child abuse
        • Child employment
        • Domestic abuse
        • Home alone
        • Sexting
        • The law on smacking children
      • Relationship breakdown
        • Marriage and Civil Partnership
        • Divorce
        • Ending a Civil Partnership
        • Alternatives to ending a marriage or civil partnership
    • Education
      • Access to information
      • Banning parents from school premises
      • Bullying
      • Charging for school activities
      • Complaints to schools
      • Direct payments
      • Disability discrimination in education
      • Direction off-site for the improvement of behaviour
      • Discipline within school
      • Discrimination in Education
      • Education for children out of school
      • Education for looked after children
      • Education of children outside of their chronological age group
      • Examinations in Summer 2021
      • Fair Access Protocol
      • Home education
      • Independent schools
      • Legal Aid for educational law matters
      • Lockdown 2021 and School Attendance
      • Managed Moves
      • Mental health in schools
      • National Curriculum at Secondary School
      • Participation of young people in education, employment or training
      • Radicalisation in schools and The Prevent Duty
      • Coronavirus and Schools
      • School admissions
      • School Admissions FAQ
      • School attendance and absence
      • School powers to search and screen pupils
      • School exclusion
      • School Meals
      • Special Educational Needs
      • Summer Born Admission
      • Supporting children with medical needs in schools
      • Transport
      • Types of school
    • Attending court
      • Appeals
      • Complaints about a court or a judge
      • Court Bundles
      • Court etiquette
      • Do I need a solicitor or barrister?
      • Explaining the legality of a Child Arrangements Order
      • Family mediation
      • Hearings in the Family Court
      • Legal Aid for family law matters
      • Litigants in Person 
      • Parenting plans
      • Preparing for a Family Court hearing
      • Remote hearings in the family court – Covid-19
      • Scott Schedule
      • Seeking costs in court
      • The role of Cafcass
      • The Welfare Checklist
      • Type of Family Law Orders
      • Use of Recordings
      • Who’s who in Family Court
      • Witness Statements
      • Writing a Position Statement
    • How-to Guides
      • How-To Guides offer additional information not found on our regular pages. You should use these if you need more detailed advice, having first read our information pages.

        How-To Guides are a paid service. Click here for full details of the pricing structure.

      • Appealing an Education, Health & Care Plan or a Statement of Special Educational Needs
      • Bullying
      • Claiming against disability discrimination in schools
      • Complaints against children’s services
      • Complaints to schools
      • Contact
      • Declaration of parentage
      • Enforcement of an Order for contact or residence
      • Parental responsibility
      • Removal from Jurisdiction
      • Residence
      • School admission appeals
      • School exclusion
      • SEN Needs Assessments & Education, Health and Care Plans
      • Special Guardianship Order
      • Variation and discharge of an order for contact or residence
    • Schools Information Guides – For Schools only
      • The Child Law Advice Service now offers a Schools Information Service. For a small fee, this service provides school professionals with detailed information about their legal rights and duties.

        For more information, click here

        Click here for full details of the pricing structure.

      • Addressing Domestic Abuse in schools
      • School security and banning parents from school premises
      • Safeguarding children in school
      • Dealing with school complaints
      • Directing children off site to improve behaviour
      • Understanding your school’s Equality duties
      • Managing behaviour in school
      • Providing education for children out of school
      • Understanding home education
      • Dealing with exclusions
      • Looked after children in schools
      • Arranging managed moves
      • Understanding the obligations of Children’s Services
      • Dealing with Parental Responsibility disputes
      • Understanding school admissions and appeals
      • Dealing with school attendance and absence
      • Understanding school transport
      • Setting a school uniform policy
      • Providing for Special Educational Needs
      • Supporting pupils with medical conditions
      • Supporting pupils’ mental health in schools
      • Preventing and tackling bullying
    • About Us
      • Child Law Advice is provided by Coram Children's Legal Centre, the UK's leading legal children's charity, and is part of the Coram group.

        Our registered charity number is 281222

      • About Child Law Advice
      • About Coram
      • Donate to Child Law Advice
      • Contact us
      • Volunteer
      • Work for us
      • Feedback
      • Broken links
      • Terms and conditions
      • Sitemap
      • Signposting List
      • Glossary
    • Email us
    • Booking a call back
    • Log In|Log Out
      • Register

How-to Guides

  • Appealing an Education Health and Care Plan or a Statement of Special Educational Needs
  • Bullying
  • Claiming against disability discrimination in schools
  • Complaints against children’s services
  • Complaints to schools
  • Contact
  • Declaration of parentage
  • Enforcement of an Order for contact or residence
  • SEN Needs Assessments & Education, Health and Care Plans
  • Parental responsibility
  • Removal from Jurisdiction
  • Residence
  • School admission appeals
  • School exclusion
  • Special Guardianship Order
  • Variation and discharge of an order for contact or residence

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