Admissions, attendance and suspensions

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).