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Is your child too ill for school?

It can be tricky deciding whether to keep your child off school when they're unwell. The NHS website provides information and guidance around when to keep children off school.

For information and advice about your child’s attendance and support with absences and illnesses, visit the ‘School is more than schoolwork’ section of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority website.

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In this section

  1. School age childcare
  2. Support from the school nurse
  3. If your child is unwell
  4. Is your child too ill for school?
  5. School attendance
  6. Looking after your child's teeth
  7. Bed wetting
  8. Young children and screen time
  9. Sleep support
  10. Active lives and movement
  11. Road Safety - accompanying children to school
  12. Fun things to do for 5-11s
  13. Applying for secondary school
  14. Getting ready to start secondary school
  15. Fun with books for children and young people
  16. Young carers