Child and family social work

Guidance and regulation

Working together to safeguard children
- Statutory guidance
- 23 February 2024
- Department for Education
Adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF)
- Detailed guide
- 24 April 2025
- Department for Education
Children's social care: national framework
- Statutory guidance
- 8 April 2025
- Department for Education
Report the death or serious harm of a child or care leaver
- Detailed guide
- 15 April 2025
- Department for Education, Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, and Ofsted
Social work post-qualifying standards: knowledge and skills statements
- Guidance
- 18 May 2018
- Department for Education

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
Experts demand accelerated change in multi-agency safeguarding practice
- 30 January 2024
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Press release

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
Multi-agency responses to serious youth violence: working together to support and protect children
- 20 November 2024
- Ofsted, Care Quality Commission, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, and HM Inspectorate of Probation
- Research

Children’s social work post-qualifying standards and induction
- 20 March 2025
- Department for Education
- Open consultation
- Closing date 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

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
Child safeguarding practice review panel: terms of reference and code of practice
- 5 April 2019
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Transparency