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Information about exception requests to adopt children from countries with special restrictions.
This guidance provides local authority analysts with the technical detail they need to submit aggregate data to the central system.
How organisations that employ newly qualified child and family social workers can take part in the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) programme.
This factsheet explains how the ASQ-3 tool will be used to collect data to monitor child development across England.
This guide is for providers and commissioners to help them understand the registration requirements with CQC and Ofsted and when to register with one or both regulatory bodies.
Information to help healthcare professionals speak with people, following suspected or confirmed diagnosis of bilateral renal agenesis.
Examples of rapid reviews for serious child safeguarding incidents.
Resources to support local authorities investing in the local commissioning of oral health improvement programmes for pre-school children.
Guidance for those working with children who may have been recruited or transported for the purposes of exploitation.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential family centres.
Guidance for local providers of infectious diseases in pregnancy screening.
A framework to help social care and criminal justice agencies keep looked-after children out of the criminal justice system.
What local authorities need to do to place a child under 13 in a secure children’s home, and guidance on when it is appropriate to do so.
Guidance for local authorities, health commissioners, parents and young people on the trial to extend powers of the SEND tribunal.
How local authorities can deal with international child protection cases.
Ofsted’s safeguarding policy and guidance for inspectors on handling safeguarding disclosures.
You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working in the home where you look after children.
Information for health professionals on the epidemiology, transmission and prevention of Chlamydia abortus which can cause stillbirth or abortion in humans.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to the criminal exploitation of children in a local authority area in England.
Statutory guidance on early childhood services and Sure Start children's centres.
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