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Find out about giving support for a maximum of 2 children and what to do if an exception applies to you.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Forms for assessing your fitness or suitability to be a children's social care provider. There are separate forms for children's homes.
Ofsted's registration fees and payment form to apply to become a children’s social care provider.
Find out how to register as a children's social care service in England, as well as what you need to update Ofsted about and how to do so.
Download a checklist of documents you need to submit as part of a children's social care application.
Reports on the wellbeing of children and young people.
Contact details for secure children's homes in England and Wales, including addresses and phone numbers for each centre or unit.
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.…
Annual Official Statistics on the number and proportion of children living in low income families.
Adoption and children's care services provided by every local authority in England between 2012 and 2014.
Guidance about types of children's social care provider and Ofsted's registration process.
Information about the SFPC programme to help safely reduce the number of children entering care.
Information for local authority services, adoption and fostering agencies, residential centres and other children's social care services.
…The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England.
Guide for local authorities and providers on when Ofsted will prioritise applications to register children’s homes services.…
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.…
This notice offers a period of closure as an alternative to criminal prosecution for an offence of repeatedly selling alcohol to children.
Documents for software suppliers and anyone else interested in past children looked after data returns from local authorities.
Privacy notice for the Children and Young People's Resettlement Fund.
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