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
| 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. |
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| Schools urged to step up commitment to Gifted and Talented programme Minister for schools Andrew Adonis has written to Head Teachers encouraging them to fulfill their G&T obligations. |
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| Parents as Partners A consultation has been launched to find out what help parents need to support their children's education and learning. |
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| Cooking classes to be compulsory in secondary schools by 2011 Minister for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls has announced £150m of funding for food teaching facilities in schools and launched a new cookbook for teens. |
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| Talking to your child about sex and relationships - new report published UK teenagers are eager to talk to their mums and dads about sex and relationships - but many parents are just too embarrassed, according to new research. |
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
