Children’s Education Advisory Service (CEAS)

CEAS provides expert and impartial advice about the education of Service children

CEAS provides a dedicated service exclusively for Service and MoD families, providing professional advice about all aspects of children’s education both in the UK and overseas. CEAS has 12 full-time advisers to answer queries via telephone, email or in person. It provides the best advice available, free of charge, to all Service parents, irrespective of rank or location. Service personnel applying for a Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) must contact CEAS to obtain a CEA Eligibility Certificate, which is uniquely numbered.

Also available from CEAS
Information sheets and packs on:

• special educational needs (SEN)
• admissions to UK schools
• boarding schools and Continuity of Education Allowances
• specific learning difficulties
• certificates for claiming CEA(Board)
• registration forms for SEN register
• moving schools pack.

Service personnel applying for a CEA must contact CEAS to obtain a CEA Eligibility Certificate, which is uniquely numbered.

Contact details

Children’s Education Advisory Service
Trenchard Lines
Upavon
Pewsey
Wilts SN9 6BE

Helpline: 01980 618244 (civilian)
Fax: 01980 618245
(mil) 94344 8244 (mil) 94344 8245
Email: enquiries@ceas.detsa.co.uk
Website: www.mod.uk/ceas