Guidance and regulation

Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 23 February 2024

Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 December 2023

Statutory guidance on the principles behind children’s social care, its purpose, factors enabling good practice and what it should achieve.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 27 February 2024

Post-qualifying assessment and accreditation criteria for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 18 May 2018

How local authorities should notify incidents to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

• From: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and 2 others
• Updated: 21 February 2019

Statutory guidance relating to care planning and reviewing arrangements for looked-after children.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 31 March 2010

Operational guidance for local authorities on the data collection and price caps rules on the use of agency child and family social workers.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 May 2024

Statutory guidance on providing effective advocacy services for children and young people making a complaint under the children Act 1989.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 29 March 2004

A guide for social care professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 September 2014

Commissioning Support Programme paper introducing the essential characteristics of good commissioning in children’s services.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 September 2010

Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns for 2024 and 2025.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 30 April 2024

Guidance for safeguarding partners and child protection professionals on what the panel does and how it works.

• From: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Updated: 29 September 2022

A guide to help young people living in children’s homes or foster care understand the 'Independent reviewing officers handbook'.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 March 2011

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

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

Guidance on supporting and protecting all children whose health and development is at risk because of neglect.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 September 2011

Guide for planning training courses on recognising and responding to child neglect.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 12 June 2012

The checklist has been provided to support the skills and expertise needed by the workforce to identify needs and issues affecting children.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 9 May 2011

Knowledge and skills development for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 18 November 2016

This prospectus looks at intensive interventions for looked-after children and those on the edge of care or custody and their families.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 18 March 2011