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Admissions, attendance and exclusions
Advice and guidance about virtual school admissions, attendance and exclusions.
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Statutory national and local guidance
The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations became statutory on 1 April 2011.
Promoting the education of looked-after children and previously looked-after children became statutory in February 2018.
For more information on these areas of national guidance use the following DfE links:
- Children Act 1989: care planning, placement and case review statutory guidance
- Promoting the education of looked-after and previously looked-after children through statutory guidance
For local guidance around decisions to educate children outside of their chronological year group download our Children Educated out of year group: Virtual school guidance (Word, 284KB).