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This guidance, produced with Cambridge Family Law, aims to inform British nationals who are planning to have a child through international surrogacy.
Information to help healthcare professionals speak with people, following suspected or confirmed diagnosis of bilateral renal agenesis.
This information can help can help parents of babies with suspected or confirmed diagnosis of cleft lip discuss the condition with healthcare professionals.
A framework of modifiable factors to guide promotion of good mental health in babies, children and young people.
Plain English and Easy-read guides providing information on influenza (flu) and vaccination.
Statutory guidance for LAs and professionals who support unaccompanied migrant children, who may be victims, or potential victims, of modern slavery.
Departmental advice containing the national minimum standards applicable to adoption agencies and adoption support agencies.
How to confirm a measles diagnosis, manage cases and contacts, control infection, and vaccinate young or partially-covered patients.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a residential family centre.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
Information about the SFPC programme to help safely reduce the number of children entering care.
How virtual school heads should manage the school-age pupil premium and the early years pupil premium for looked-after children.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential family centres.
Information for local authorities on how to provide short break care (otherwise known as respite care) to disabled children.
Guidance for providers of healthy child programme services on the completion of data tables and fields in the Community Services Data Set (CSDS).
Guidance for local authorities about extending Personal Adviser (PA) support to age 25.
Guidance on how to make an exception request to adopt a child from a country with a special restriction.
Examples of rapid reviews for serious child safeguarding incidents.
Training and tools to help practitioners and their managers discuss parental conflict.
Guidance for inspectors on how to make this decision and the process to follow.
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