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'You're Welcome': standards to help improve the quality of, and access to, health and wellbeing services for young people.
Non-statutory guidance for schools, responsible bodies and childcare providers looking to open or expand school-based nursery provision.
Guide for local authorities and schools submitting early years foundation stage profile data for 2026.
This guidance, produced with Cambridge Family Law, aims to inform British nationals who are planning to have a child through international surrogacy.
Guidance for providers on registering a children’s home with Ofsted when the care and accommodation is provided in more than one building.
Guide for children and young people with learning disabilities on changes to the special needs educational and disability (SEND) system.
Information for local authorities on how to provide short break care (otherwise known as respite care) to disabled children.
Terms of reference for the independent investigation into maternity and neonatal care in England.
This leaflet answers your questions on the vaccine that protects babies against rotavirus infection.
Sets out the government's quality standards for children, young people and maternity standards.
Examples of rapid reviews for serious child safeguarding incidents.
How local authorities can deal with international child protection cases.
How you can ask for an independent review if you disagree with an adoption agency’s or fostering service provider’s qualifying determination letter.
How local authorities and their partners in children’s social care can apply to set up a regional care cooperative.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure children's homes.
Guidance for providers of healthy child programme services on the completion of data tables and fields in the Community Services Data Set (CSDS).
How Ofsted regulates applicants and childcare services that are only on the Childcare Register.
This factsheet explains how the ASQ-3 tool will be used to collect data to monitor child development across England.
Information for employers on supporting kinship carers in the workplace and how to be a kinship-friendly employer.
A conversation framework for talking to parents about the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP).
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