Federal Law No. 3 of 2016 Concerning Child Rights, also known as Wadeema's Law (PDF, 250 KB), every child has the right to education, and it is illegal to not put your child in a school or leave him without education during the compulsory education stage, without due reason.

The UAE government will work on achieving equal academic opportunities for every child and will take necessary measures to:

• prevent children from missing school
• promote the participation of children and their parents in the decisions related to children
• ban all forms of violence in educational institutions
• develop the educational system, including kindergartens, and achieve the development of every child in the mental, physical, emotional, social and moral aspects
• set special programmes for reporting violations on the educational rights of the children.

Read more about child rights to education and protection in Chapters 7 and 8 of  Wadeema's law.