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How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with an independent fostering agency.
Sets out the government's quality standards for children, young people and maternity standards.
Information to help healthcare professionals speak with people, following suspected or confirmed diagnosis of bilateral renal agenesis.
Guidance for senior leaders on monitoring the provision of online safety education in schools and colleges.
Find out what reducing parental conflict is and about the work of the Reducing Parental Conflict Programme.
Leaflet for parents explaining what happens when vaccines have inadvertently been stored outside of the recommended storage temperature range.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a JTAI of the multi-agency response to the identification of initial need and risk (often referred to as the ‘front door’).
Guidance for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer’s relationship with their baby, and identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.
This information can help can help parents of babies with suspected or confirmed diagnosis of cleft lip discuss the condition with healthcare professionals.
Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the early years census.
Information for health professionals on the epidemiology, transmission and prevention of Chlamydia abortus which can cause stillbirth or abortion in humans.
How you can ask for an independent review if you disagree with an adoption agency’s or fostering service provider’s qualifying determination letter.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
Nursing and other qualifications that cannot be counted in the early years foundation stage (EYFS) staff:child ratios.
Guidance for inspectors on how to make this decision and the process to follow.
Guide for children and young people with learning disabilities on changes to the special needs educational and disability (SEND) system.
How we produce statistics on looked-after children.
Evidence and guidance on childhood obesity, to help families and communities intervene and help change eating and activity habits.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Russia by the other parent or a relative.
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