Guidance and regulation

Statutory and operational guidance for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities as child death review partners.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 20 September 2019

How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 20 October 2023

How local authorities should collect and submit data to complete the children’s social work workforce census.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 March 2024

Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns for 2024.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 March 2024

How child death overview panels (CDOPs) should submit information for the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB1) data collection.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 29 November 2019

When you can share information about your case, what you can share and what to do if someone else shares information.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Updated: 16 April 2024

Specification on the scope and business rationale of the children’s social work workforce census for 2023 to 2024.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 March 2024

Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 7 August 2020

Specifications of children’s social work workforce reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 March 2024