ol is; • in the case of children of Service Personnel, check with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Children’s Education Advisory Service (CEAS); and • home visit(s) made by appropriate team, following local guidance concerning risk assessment and if appropriate make enquiries with neighbour(s) and relatives. This list is not exhaustive or prescriptive, and so local authorities and schools should treat each case on its individual merits and use their judgement, ensuring they have taken into account all of the facts of the case. It should be recognised that the type of reasonable 16 enquiries required to try to locate a child and establish their circumstances will differ from case to case and additional enquiries to those suggested in this section may be necessary. Making these enquiries may not always lead to establishing the location or circumstances of the child, but will provide a steer on what action should be taken next, for example, to contact the police, children’s social care and, in cases where there may be concerns for the safety of a child who has travelled abroad, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Using Common Transfer Files to transfer pupil information The Department provides a secure internet system – school2school – to allow schools to transfer pupil information to another school when the child moves27. If the school the child is leaving agrees, the local authority may do this on the school’s behalf. The Common Transfer File (CTF) guidance makes clear that all schools maintained by a local authority in England are required when a pupil ceases to be registered at their school, and becomes a registered pupil at another school in England or Wales, to send a CTF to the new school. Academies (including free schools) are also strongly encouraged to send CTFs wh