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Primary school admissions

How and when to apply for a place, how admission decisions are made and information about each school to help you decide which schools to apply to.

Time to renew your postal vote

Everyone who votes by post must re-apply every 3 years, so if you chose to vote by post before January 2024 you need to re-apply online now.

Postal voting

Rochdale, Greater Manchester Town of Culture 2025/26

An exciting year of unmissable events, festivals, exhibitions, and performances highlighting the very best of Rochdale’s rich cultural offerings and creative talent.

What’s on during Rochdale’s year as Greater Manchester Town of Culture

Money, debt and benefit advice

Find resources and advice to help with your benefits, including Pension Credit. You can also find support if you can't afford your energy bills, money or debts.

Get help and advice on money, debt and benefits

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Translation and accessibility tools

To make our website usable for as many people as possible, we've added the Recite Me toolbar. You can use this to do things like translating the text to another language, have the text read aloud and more.