Child and family social work

Guidance and regulation

Working together to safeguard children
- Statutory guidance
- 12 June 2025
- Department for Education
Adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF)
- Detailed guide
- 17 July 2025
- Department for Education
Children's social care: national framework
- Statutory guidance
- 16 July 2025
- Department for Education
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Guidance
- 16 June 2025
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
Social work post-qualifying standards: knowledge and skills statements
- Guidance
- 18 May 2018
- Department for Education

Revised direction issued to Devon County Council: October 2022
- 11 June 2025
- Department for Education
- Decision
Regional improvement and innovation alliances: grant determination letters
- 24 January 2025
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Safeguarding experts demand national action plan to tackle child sexual abuse
- 26 November 2024
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Press release
Serious youth violence more far-reaching than many realise
- 20 November 2024
- Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, HM Inspectorate of Probation, and Care Quality Commission
- Press release
Grant: agency child and family social worker data collection 2024 to 2025
- 1 October 2024
- Department for Education
- Correspondence

Child safeguarding impact report
- 16 June 2025
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Independent report
Child and family social worker knowledge and skills
- 24 April 2025
- Department for Education
- Research
Children and young people’s services formula review
- 27 February 2025
- Department for Education
- Research
Children's social work workforce 2024
- 27 February 2025
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Children and families' experiences of multi-agency support when impacted by serious youth violence
- 20 November 2024
- Ofsted
- Independent report

Children’s social work post-qualifying standards and induction
- 20 March 2025
- Department for Education
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 28 May 2025
Child and family social workers: agency rules statutory guidance
- 12 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 28 February 2024
Working together to safeguard children: changes to statutory guidance
- 15 December 2023
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 06 September 2023
Regional Care Co-operatives: pathfinder areas
- 18 November 2024
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Children's social care: dashboard and indicators update
- 15 December 2023
- Department for Education
- Policy paper

Step up to social work: regional partnerships
- 2 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Families first for children pathfinder: grant determination letters
- 18 October 2024
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Child safeguarding practice review panel: pool of reviewers
- 15 May 2024
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and Department for Education
- Transparency
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: annual report 2022 to 2023
- 2 February 2024
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Corporate report
Children's social work workforce: attrition, caseload and agency workforce
- 23 May 2022
- Department for Education
- Transparency