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Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a children’s home or secure children’s home.
Guidance for those providing residential children’s homes for vulnerable children.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a children's home.
This policy sets out the processes Ofsted uses to assess the suitability…
If you want to apply to register a children’s home, you must complete a…
If you are applying to work as a director, manager, or a responsible…
Registered providers of children’s homes must continue to meet the…
A secure children’s home or school is a type of children’s home where…
Annex A form for children's homes and secure children's homes to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
Statutory guidance for local authorities to support looked-after and previously looked-after children's aspirations to achieve in further and higher education.
Statutory guidance about local authority support to children and families.
Statutory guidance for local-authority-maintained schools carrying out duties for looked-after and previously looked-after children.
Statutory guidance on the planning, commissioning and delivery of health services for looked-after children.
Guide to the regulations on providing supported accommodation for children and young people. It includes the quality standards that all supported accommodation providers must meet.
Ofsted's framework and guidance for inspecting local authority services for children (ILACS) in need of help and protection, children in care and care leavers.
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2025 to 2026.
This guidance outlines 'staying put' arrangements that enable care leavers to remain with their former foster carers after they turn 18.
Volume 3: statutory guidance for local authorities on helping care leavers aged 16 and 17 prepare for adulthood.
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual children looked after return (also known as SSDA903).
Guide for local authorities submitting children in need census 2025 to 2026 returns.
Statutory guidance for local authorities and their partners to stop children going missing and to protect those who do.
Statutory guidance on Junior ISAs for children and young people who have been in local authority care for 12 months or more.
Guidance for local authorities and schools dealing with adults who have legal rights and responsibilities for a child.
How local authorities should extend the virtual school head role to promote the education of children with a social worker and children in kinship care.
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