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The law does not say an age when you can leave a child on their own, but it's an offence to leave a child alone if it puts them at risk
Parents can get in trouble with the law if their child gets arrested - find out about parenting programmes, Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Understand how to follow safeguarding procedures when planning remote education strategies and teaching remotely.
Wellbeing is linked with an individual’s physical health, health behaviours and resilience (the ability to cope with adverse circumstances).
Evaluation and summary reports for the Children's social care innovation programme (CSCIP) grouped by theme.
A cross-sectional study on the protective role of parental monitoring, religiosity, and self-esteem
Standard directions forms under the Children Act.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
Information that schools maintained by a local authority must or should publish on their website.
New age ratings to be introduced on Relationships, Sex and Health Education content in schools to ensure it is appropriately and sensitively taught.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
Children under 10 who break the law can be given a Local Child Curfew, a Child Safety Order or can be taken into care
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