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Service Children’s Education (SCE) provided schools and educational support for the children of HM Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence (MOD) personnel and MOD-sponsored organisations stationed overseas. Its work is now carried out by the Directorate of Children and Young People...
The Office of the Children’s Commissioner promotes the rights, views and interests of children in policies or decisions affecting their lives. They particularly represent children who are vulnerable or who find it hard to make their views known. Office of...
Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children's social services.
Explore the impact of parental conflict on children and young people.
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.
DCSF is now the Department for Education
Evaluation and summary reports for the Children's social care innovation programme (CSCIP) grouped by theme.
The ECCE provides an in-depth understanding of children's centre services in deprived areas.
Statistics on secure children’s homes, including the number of children they accommodate as of 31 March each year.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Statistics from Ofsted on children's centres.
Find out which supplies of children’s clothing or footwear are zero-rated for VAT.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
Statistics from Ofsted including data for children’s homes and other social care providers, fostering, inspections of local authority children’s services, and serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services.
This document includes guidance on first-time applicants, renewals, parental responsibility, court orders and loco parentis.
Asylum policy guidance for asylum applications involving children.
The CWDC was responsible for ensuring that people working with children had the appropriate skills. It was closed in 2012.
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