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The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
This is an overview of Part one: safeguarding information for all staff.…
Download your teaching certificates and check details of your training and induction.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, support and protect children.
Use this service to check a teacher’s record before they start working for your school, college, teacher supply agency, or other organisation.
Information for learners and parents about their personal learning record and unique learner number.
Guidance on the special educational needs and disability (SEND) system for children and young people aged 0 to 25.
Statutory guidance about the support that pupils with allergies must receive in schools.
Guidance for local authorities that will receive funding to deliver the holiday activities and food programme.
Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage.
Guidance on the suspension and permanent exclusion of pupils from local-authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units.
If you have a non-social-work-related degree and want to become a child and family social worker, you can train through this programme.
For academy members, trustees, accounting officers, chief financial officers and auditors.
How managers and practitioners can check if an early years qualification is approved as full and relevant by DfE for working in staff:child ratios in England.
UK qualifications that meet Department for Education (DfE) criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage statutory framework staff:child ratios.
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
How schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities should maintain high levels of school attendance.
Statutory guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education.
Check if a new employee can work with children while you wait for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
These standards set the minimum requirements for teachers’ practice and conduct.
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