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

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.