# source/domain-registers/school-years.v1.yaml

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    register_version: life-course-domain-register.v1
    pack_id: pack-2-learning-transition
    domain: school-years
    title: School years
    status: population_complete
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    link_receipts: evaluation/link-receipts/pack-2-learning-transition-2026-08-08
    acquisition:
      mode: linked_reference_only
      snapshots_acquired: false
      source_response_bodies_retained: false
      publication_allowed: false
      rights_policy: link_and_summarize_source_family_decisions_recorded
    _source_defaults: &source_defaults
      access_method: public_html
      version_model: live_service_guidance
      update_cadence: check_before_each_use
      rights_basis: linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded
      observed_at: "2026-08-08"
      checksum: not_applicable_no_snapshot
    _family_defaults: &family_defaults
      primary_jurisdictions: [England]
      specialist_review: required
    route_sources:
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: school-years-scotland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Scotland
        title: School education in Scotland
        owner: Scottish Government
        authority_role: scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training
        coverage: Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.
        exclusions: Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: school-years-wales-handoff
        jurisdiction: Wales
        title: Education and skills in Wales
        owner: Welsh Government
        authority_role: wales_school_service_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.gov.wales/education-skills
        coverage: Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.
        exclusions: Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: school-years-northern-ireland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Northern Ireland
        title: Education in Northern Ireland
        owner: Northern Ireland Executive
        authority_role: northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education
        coverage: Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.
        exclusions: Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome.
    families:
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: apply-for-school-place
        title: Apply for a school place
        aliases: [school admissions application, primary or secondary school place]
        description: Find the responsible admissions route and submit a school-place application for the relevant intake or move.
        situations: [A parent or carer needs a state-funded school place for a child.]
        user_needs: [Identify the admissions authority, application window, preferences and decision route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: apply-for-school-place-primary
          title: Apply for a primary school place
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_primary_school_admissions_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-primary-school-place
          coverage: Routes an England applicant to the responsible council and current primary admissions process.
          exclusions: Does not allocate a place or establish another nation's admissions process.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: appeal-school-admission
        title: Appeal a school admission decision
        aliases: [school place appeal, challenge refused school admission]
        description: Use the applicable independent appeal route after an admissions authority refuses a preferred school place.
        situations: [A school-place application has been refused and the applicant wants the decision reviewed.]
        user_needs: [Find the appeal body, deadline, evidence boundary and decision route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: appeal-school-admission-primary
          title: Appealing a school's decision
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_school_admission_appeal_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/schools-admissions/appealing-a-schools-decision
          coverage: Explains the England school-admission appeal route and hearing boundary.
          exclusions: Does not predict or decide an appeal.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: arrange-school-transport
        title: Arrange school transport
        aliases: [free school transport, travel assistance to school]
        description: Find the council or education authority route for school travel assistance and any review process.
        situations: [A child may need help travelling safely to and from school.]
        user_needs: [Locate the responsible authority, current criteria, application and review route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: arrange-school-transport-primary
          title: Free school transport
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_school_transport_discovery_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/free-school-transport
          coverage: Routes England applicants to their council's current school-transport application.
          exclusions: Does not determine eligibility, route safety or transport provision.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: meet-school-attendance-duty
        title: Meet school attendance duties
        aliases: [school absence rules, child missing school]
        description: Understand the attendance route, authorised-absence boundary and response when attendance is disrupted.
        situations: [A parent, carer or pupil needs to understand attendance responsibilities or report an absence.]
        user_needs: [Find the school and authority route before a penalty, support or exception decision.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: meet-school-attendance-duty-primary
          title: School attendance and absence
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_school_attendance_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence
          coverage: Explains the England attendance and authorised-absence service boundary.
          exclusions: Does not decide whether an absence is authorised or whether enforcement is lawful.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: choose-home-education
        title: Choose home education
        aliases: [educate child at home, elective home education]
        description: Navigate the notification, education and local-authority contact boundaries when educating a child at home.
        situations: [A parent or carer is considering or using home education.]
        user_needs: [Find the applicable duties, school withdrawal and authority contact route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: choose-home-education-primary
          title: Educating your child at home
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_home_education_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/home-education
          coverage: Introduces the England elective home-education route and local-authority boundary.
          exclusions: Does not assess education suitability or establish devolved rules.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: apply-for-free-school-meals
        title: Apply for free school meals
        aliases: [school meal support, free lunches at school]
        description: Find the current school-meal support route and submit an application where one is required.
        situations: [A household needs to check or request help with school meal costs.]
        user_needs: [Locate the responsible authority and current application or automatic-entitlement route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: apply-for-free-school-meals-primary
          title: Apply for free school meals
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_free_school_meals_discovery_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals
          coverage: Routes England applicants to the responsible council's school-meal service.
          exclusions: Does not calculate household entitlement or establish another nation's offer.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: access-school-health
        title: Access school health support
        aliases: [school nurse, health support at school]
        description: Find the current school-health or clinical route for a child's health need during the school years.
        situations: [A child or family needs preventive, routine or condition-related health support connected with school.]
        user_needs: [Identify the accountable health and school contact without relying on the bundle for clinical advice.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: access-school-health-primary
          title: Is my child too ill for school?
          owner: NHS England
          authority_role: england_school_health_guidance
          resource: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/
          coverage: Provides an England NHS handoff for common illness, school attendance and clinical help.
          exclusions: Does not diagnose, assess urgency or replace the child's clinician or school-health service.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-school-send-support
        title: Get school SEND support
        aliases: [special educational needs help at school, SEN support]
        description: Navigate school support, assessment and education-plan routes for special educational needs or disability.
        situations: [A child may need additional educational support because of learning difficulty or disability.]
        user_needs: [Find the school, local-authority and review sequence without deciding need locally.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-school-send-support-primary
          title: Children with special educational needs and disabilities
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_send_support_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs
          coverage: Introduces the England SEND support and education, health and care plan routes.
          exclusions: Does not assess a child or determine support, placement or appeal outcome.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: challenge-school-exclusion
        title: Challenge a school exclusion
        aliases: [appeal school exclusion, suspended or expelled from school]
        description: Follow the review and challenge route after a pupil is suspended or permanently excluded.
        situations: [A pupil has received a suspension or permanent-exclusion decision.]
        user_needs: [Understand the decision record, governing-body review and independent-review boundary.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: challenge-school-exclusion-primary
          title: School discipline and exclusions
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_school_exclusion_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/school-discipline-exclusions/exclusions
          coverage: Explains England suspension, exclusion and challenge routes.
          exclusions: Does not decide the merits or provide legal advice.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: sit-public-examinations
        title: Sit public examinations
        aliases: [take GCSE or A level exams, exam results and appeals]
        description: Navigate entry, reasonable-adjustment, results and review routes for regulated school examinations.
        situations: [A learner needs to enter, sit or respond to the result of a public examination.]
        user_needs: [Find the exam centre, awarding organisation and current review or appeal route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: sit-public-examinations-primary
          title: Exam results, what you can do next
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_public_examination_results_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/your-results-what-next
          coverage: Routes learners from England qualification results to current review and next-step information.
          exclusions: Does not award a grade, arrange an exam entry or decide an appeal.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: support-child-in-care-education
        title: Support a child in care in education
        aliases: [looked-after child education, virtual school support]
        description: Find the accountable education support around a child looked after by a local authority.
        situations: [A looked-after child needs coordinated education planning or support.]
        user_needs: [Identify the school, social-care and virtual-school roles and escalation route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: support-child-in-care-education-primary
          title: Promoting the education of looked-after children
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_looked_after_child_education_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/promoting-the-education-of-looked-after-children
          coverage: Publishes the England statutory-guidance handoff for looked-after children's education.
          exclusions: Does not determine an individual child's plan, placement or safeguarding action.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: report-school-safeguarding-concern
        title: Report a school safeguarding concern
        aliases: [report child abuse from school, school child protection concern]
        description: Use the urgent, school or local-authority route when a concern about a child's safety arises in school life.
        situations: [Someone is concerned that a child connected with a school may be harmed or at risk.]
        user_needs: [Reach the current safeguarding authority without delaying an emergency response.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: report-school-safeguarding-concern-primary
          title: Report child abuse to a local council
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_local_child_safeguarding_discovery_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/report-child-abuse-to-local-council
          coverage: Routes an England concern to the relevant local children's social-care service.
          exclusions: Does not assess risk, investigate harm or replace emergency services.