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Departmental advice containing the national minimum standards applicable to adoption agencies and adoption support agencies.
Guidance for anyone wanting to register and operate as a childminder agency.
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2024 to 2025.
If you are a civil servant considering taking shared parental leave, this guidance will give you a better understanding of the options available to you.
Information about the risk of mumps in pregnant women, vaccination during pregnancy and who should get the MMR vaccine.
Guide for children and young people with learning disabilities on changes to the special needs educational and disability (SEND) system.
Find out what reducing parental conflict is and about the work of the Reducing Parental Conflict Programme.
Grant Determination for the Families First Partnership Programme Transformation (Revenue) Grant 2025 to 2026.
UK Chief Medical Officers’ (CMO) commentary on ‘Screen-based activities and children and young people’s mental health and psychosocial wellbeing: a systematic map of reviews'.
How you can ask for an independent review if you disagree with an adoption agency’s or fostering service provider’s qualifying determination letter.
Legacy resources to support button battery safety and raise awareness produced for a product safety campaign during 2021.
Evaluation and summary reports for the Children's social care innovation programme (CSCIP) grouped by theme.
Specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the 2025 to 2026 children in need census.
How local authorities can deal with international child protection cases.
List of early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers.
A framework to help social care and criminal justice agencies keep looked-after children out of the criminal justice system.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure children's homes.
Guidance for child health information system (CHIS) providers on information requirements, and suppliers on specifications for collecting and reporting data.
Guide for local authorities submitting children in need census 2026 to 2027 returns.
Information about exception requests to adopt children from countries with special restrictions.
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