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Guide for local authorities and schools submitting early years foundation stage profile data for 2025.
Guidance for local authorities about extending Personal Adviser (PA) support to age 25.
Resource to help improve early years services from pregnancy to age 2.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) of the multi-agency response to children and their families who need help in a local authority area in England.
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’).
Action areas for local authorities and their partners to help develop injury prevention strategies for children and young people.
Information leaflet and poster to support the whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy programme.
Guidance for childminder agencies on registering with Ofsted, including the process, fees and requirements. It sets out the legal background and the extent of our regulatory powers.
Infographic for children and young people summarising UK government actions to protect children’s rights.
Guidance for those working with children who may have been recruited or transported for the purposes of exploitation.
This guidance, produced with Cambridge Family Law, aims to inform British nationals who are planning to have a child through international surrogacy.
Information for health professionals on the epidemiology, transmission and prevention of Chlamydia abortus which can cause stillbirth or abortion in humans.
Guidance on child protection cases and care orders where the child has links to a foreign country.
Data submission specifications for the children looked after (CLA) return for 2025 to 2026.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
Information, intelligence and tools with evidence-based approaches for how preconception care can be embedded.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
The checklist has been provided to support the skills and expertise needed by the workforce to identify needs and issues affecting children.
Find, download and explore official Department for Education (DfE) statistics and data in England.
A summary of what attending a review panel is like and the documents that you can submit to the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM).
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