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Forms for assessing your fitness or suitability to be a children's social care provider. There are separate forms for children's homes.
Product recall for AILE Toddler Wooden Peg Puzzle presenting a serious risk of choking.
Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children's social services.
You must apply to Ofsted if you want to take up a governance position in a daycare organisation, or if you start living or working in a home where daycare takes place.
Consultation launched to strengthen safeguards for child strip search including the requirement to notify parents and guardians when a child is strip searched.
This paper compares cognitive skills and enhanced subjective well-being between children attending Government and Private Preschool education
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
DCSF is now the Department for Education
Guidance for schools, sixth-form colleges, 16 to 19 academies and further education institutions wishing to use automated biometric recognition systems.
An explanation of what happens to those judged inadequate on the Early Years Register and those not meeting registration requirements on the Childcare Register.
How local authorities can share aggregate data on children who receive elective home education (EHE) and those children missing education (CME).
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre or residential holiday scheme.
Guidance for applicants on what to expect from Ofsted during the childcare application review process.
This mixed methods study draws upon Young Lives India longitudinal data
Ofsted has today published the second part in its series of research reviews drawing on a range of research relating to early years education.
Guidance about types of children's social care provider and Ofsted's registration process.
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