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Parental Support

Educating your child at home
Guidance for parents who choose to educate their children otherwise than by attendance at school.
Education Welfare
The Education Welfare Service aims to ensure that all children obtain full benefit from the educational opportunities available to them.
Educational Psychology Service
We are a small team of applied psychologists with a background in education & research. We have skills in a range of psychological assessment & intervention techniques & in different methods of helping children, the staff who work with them & parents.
Educational Visits
The Royal Borough takes seriously its responsibility in encouraging and providing a safe environment for Off-Site visits for young people under its duty of care.
School Supervised Medication
Information for parents/guardians if pupils need to take their own medicines into school.
Useful Phone Numbers and Addresses of Education Organisations
Useful Education Related Phone Numbers and Addresses

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Attendance at School
Information on how the Education Welfare Service deals with school attendance issues and truancy.
Babysitting and Childcare
Guidance on Babysitting / Childcare.
Bullying Advice for Parents and Carers
Helpline for parents and carers for advice on bullying in confidence.
Chaperones for Children in Entertainment
Details about chaperones
Childcare Sufficiency Assessment
From April 2008, the Children Act 2006 placed a duty on Local Authorities to prepare an assessment of the supply and demand for childcare within their area.
Children in Entertainment
Children in entertainment, performance licences
Curriculum
National Curriculum in schools
Disabled Students Allowance
How to apply for Disabled Students Allowance
Education Appeals
How to appeal against a decision to refuse a place at a school, exclude a child from school and provide assistance with the transportation of a child to school.
Education Complaints
How to complain to your child's school
Educational and related European opportunities
Information on educational and related European opportunities
Employment of Children
Paid Work and Work Experience for school aged pupils
Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service
Language and cultural support provided by the Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service.
Excluded Pupils
Exclusion from school
Extended Schools
Extended schools provide a range of services and activities, which will help to meet the needs of pupils, their families and the wider community.
Family Information Service
This is a free service available to anyone who resides, works or is learning within the borough that has children in their care aged 0-20 years.
Fixed Period Exclusion From School
Information on Fixed Period Exclusions from School
Free School Meals
Free School Meals
Funding Arrangements in RBWM Schools to Meet Special Educational Needs
SEN Funding, Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom
Mentoring
What it takes to become a mentor, and obtaining one.
Norfolk House
Norfolk House is the Children in Care Team supporting children and young people in residential and foster care.
Parents and Carers
Information from the Family Information Service for Parents and Carers, giving useful links relating to child-related web sites
Permanent Exclusion From School
Information on the process of permanently excluding a pupil from school
School Records for an Individual Pupil
School Records for an Individual Pupil
School Term Dates
School Terms dates for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Sensory Consortium Service
Education support service for hearing impairment, visual impairment and multi-sensory impairment.
Special Educational Needs
Information on services and support for children with special educational needs.
Teenage Pregnancy in School
Teenage Pregnancy at school
Travel to school
Information on Home to School Transport