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Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, support and protect children.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Statutory guidance on the principles behind children’s social care, its purpose, factors enabling good practice and what it should achieve.
Post-qualifying assessment and accreditation criteria for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.
Guidance for safeguarding partners and child protection professionals on what the panel does and how it works.
How local authorities should report incidents to the Department for Education, Ofsted and Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
Data dashboard designed to support local authorities and partners with the implementation of the children’s social care national framework.
Operational guidance for local authorities on the data collection and price caps rules on the use of agency child and family social workers.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the use of agency child and family social workers.
Statutory guidance relating to care planning and reviewing arrangements for looked-after children.
How local authorities should collect and submit data to complete the children’s social work workforce census.
Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns for 2026.
Statutory guidance on providing effective advocacy services for children and young people making a complaint under the children Act 1989.
A guide for social care professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.
A guide to help young people living in children’s homes or foster care understand the 'Independent reviewing officers handbook'.
Specification on the scope and business rationale of the children’s social work workforce census for 2024 to 2025 and 2025 to 2026.
This prospectus looks at intensive interventions for looked-after children and those on the edge of care or custody and their families.
Guide for planning training courses on recognising and responding to child neglect.
Commissioning Support Programme paper introducing the essential characteristics of good commissioning in children’s services.
Knowledge and skills development for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.
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